Posts Tagged → openwrt
August 9th, 2009
s3fs for openwrt
If you’ve been following along with my wifi radio posts, you may recall my problem of storage for the platform. I chose an ultra-low power and nearly zero storage device for my music collection because I planned to buy an external storage device and serve music from that device. I still think that’s a good idea, but I’m too cheap to spring for the kind of device I really want. So I’ve been experimenting with cloud storage which has a number of big advantages which I won’t get into here.
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February 4th, 2009
openwrt wifi radio part 3
Finding a good, cheap sound card should have been as easy as ordering the one mentioned on the mighty ohm for $10, but I thought I’d save eight bucks and order the cheapest possible one on ebay. When it arrived, the right channel was totally non-functional and to say the sound quality was poor would be an understatement. It was impressive though, that anyone could manufacture and deliver to my door a brand new USB sound card even counting the defects for only two dollars. But that’s all beside the point. Continue reading → By stevecrozz • No Comment
January 8th, 2009
openwrt wifi radio part 2
In part 1 of this series, I took an Asus router and loaded openwrt onto it. I added an LCD display and connected it to the serial port on the router board. At this point, I have a low-power, small form factor computer that I can customize to my heart’s content. As far as I/O, the computer still has its original wifi antenna, 5 wired LAN interfaces, a serial port and a USB port. My USB sound adapter still hasn’t arrived from Hong Kong, so I’m going to work on another piece of the puzzle. Continue reading → By stevecrozz • 5 Comments
December 29th, 2008
openwrt wifi radio part 1
I’ve been inspired by Jeff Keyzer to build a wifi radio. I’ve wanted for a long time to build a wifi radio to play internet radio and music from an arbitrary remote filesystem. The low cost of the platform he chose, the WL-520gu which I picked up for $35 shipped and is now even cheaper made the barrier to entry much lower than I had thought. So I bought one and tore out the guts as soon as it arrived. Continue reading → By stevecrozz • 1 Comment
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