> > *Well, it's unique in the sense that it offers not only the CODEC, but > amplification that can directly drive decent (but not huge) speakers. My > current board also provides level shifting and sufficient power to drive a > decent strand of WS2811 LEDs. I also provide 1.8V for use with the ADC (in > my case, I drive potentiometers for user input). With stackable headers, > the vast majority of the rest of the pins would still be available for > other uses.* > > * Anyway, maybe I'll do a kickstarter/preorder of some kind, see if I can > get enough revenue to build 100 boards.* > > * Thanks for the feedback!*
The WS28XX option will probably be a draw for hobbyists anyway. On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sep 23, 2015, at 15:03 , William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Antique podcast player - Probably not. But I would imagine if you made > the board / software generic enough, others would / could have use. > > > > Hardware wise, I'm having a hard time imaging how it would / could be > generic enough. As long as it just plays music. But software wise, if you > made a device tree file to load the needed pin configurations, and provided > decent documentation / and skeleton code. I'd imagine many would / could be > interested. > > > > One such project immediately pops into my mind. A remote media player. > e.g. something low power, and network connected that could be remote > controlled. Through a web app even . . . but that's something that I've > already worked on some myself. > > > > But I don't know, there are already many music "options" out there > already. It's kind of hard to imagine how this would be different / unique > in capability. Maybe if it had music sync to lights built in or something ? > > Well, it's unique in the sense that it offers not only the CODEC, but > amplification that can directly drive decent (but not huge) speakers. My > current board also provides level shifting and sufficient power to drive a > decent strand of WS2811 LEDs. I also provide 1.8V for use with the ADC (in > my case, I drive potentiometers for user input). With stackable headers, > the vast majority of the rest of the pins would still be available for > other uses. > > Anyway, maybe I'll do a kickstarter/preorder of some kind, see if I can > get enough revenue to build 100 boards. > > Thanks for the feedback! > > > > > -- > Rick Mann > [email protected] > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
