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by hal
Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:42 pm
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: Progress on the 520GC...
Replies: 3
Views: 7666

Re: Progress on the 520GC...

Why not just add your own regulator off the router's crappy 9V? For low current, a 7805 would be easy enough to add...

As for a source for cheap card readers, check www.dealextreme.com
by hal
Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:42 pm
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: Heatsinking?
Replies: 2
Views: 6092

Heatsinking?

http://garydion.com/projects/wifiradio/

gutshot, 3/4 of the way down, heatsink on the processor is visible.

Running more programs than just router firmware makes it hotter than it would normally be? What do we think?

By the way, sweet build!
by hal
Tue May 05, 2009 10:36 am
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: Playing other streams
Replies: 11
Views: 22970

Re: Playing other streams

I guess the first key is to make sure that your router can ping your server. If it can, add your server's stream (for me it was http://192.168.1.123:8000/mpd.ogg). Make sure that mpc is controlling the local mpd, rather than the server's mpd when you do this. If this doesn't work, I have no clue - m...
by hal
Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:15 pm
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: Playing other streams
Replies: 11
Views: 22970

Re: Playing other streams

Yea, it's mostly working now. I just have a bug where it needs to be told to restart every song, but I have seen other people report that bug, and I have no clue how to fix it. Hopefully I can soon. I was almost there before - there is just another bug in some versions so that you can't be outputtin...
by hal
Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:39 pm
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: GBA interface for wireless radio
Replies: 4
Views: 14608

Re: GBA interface for wireless radio

Oh yea - it doesn't have any networking functionality. I mean, that might be possible with a DS, but for ~$11 + cart, the GBA is still a bargain for a really nice display with microcontroller and input/output capabilities....
by hal
Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:52 am
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: Playing other streams
Replies: 11
Views: 22970

Re: Playing other streams

I think it's going to be MPC switching back and forth. Seems kinda hacky, but to switch between which mpd the router's mpc is controlling, you can just change the MPD_HOST environment variable. I think that should be the easiest way to do it. I had some problems getting icecast 2 working (mpd would ...
by hal
Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:00 am
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: Playing other streams
Replies: 11
Views: 22970

Re: Playing other streams

I got mpc on the router to talk to mpd on the server (the only hitch is to comment out out the "bind to address" line in mpd.conf on the server). However, to play the music through the router, I think I need to use icecast to send the stream from the server. Which brings up the interesting...
by hal
Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:21 am
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: Playing other streams
Replies: 11
Views: 22970

Playing other streams

So this might be a premature post, since I haven't really spent lots of time playing around with this on my own, but I was wondering how much luck you guys had playing streams other than just streams you find on the internet - for example, have any of you had any luck playing pandora or last.fm stre...
by hal
Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:29 pm
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: GBA interface for wireless radio
Replies: 4
Views: 14608

Re: GBA interface for wireless radio

Flash depends on the cartridge you buy. I bought the cheapest one I could find, and it is 16 Mb (marketed as 128 megabits). It has 32k of "fast" ram, and another 256k of 'external' ram, although I'm not quite sure what any of that means yet. There is a gcc compiler for it, and TONS of info...
by hal
Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:11 pm
Forum: Wifi Radio Project / Hacking the Asus WL-520gU
Topic: GBA interface for wireless radio
Replies: 4
Views: 14608

GBA interface for wireless radio

Hi everyone, I just bought another extremely overpowered (32-bit ARM7, 240x160 16-bit display), underpriced ($11 shipped, on ebay, +$11 for a programmable cartridge and link cable on DX) device to use with the wireless radio: a game boy advance. I have only just begun to read about it, have not yet ...