{"id":2952,"date":"2010-05-26T11:57:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T18:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:03","slug":"the-tech-junkies-build-a-wifi-radio-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/the-tech-junkies-build-a-wifi-radio-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tech Junkies Build a Wifi Radio (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12003768&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/ttjcrew.com\/\">The Tech Junkies<\/a>, Ben and Eric show how to hack an Asus WL-520gu wireless router into a music playback device. By loading the OpenWRT firmware onto the router and adding a USB sound card, it is possible to convert this cheap\/powerful router into a streaming box to be placed anywhere your WiFi is in range. Now you can build your own shoutcast\/icecast receiver for cheap and get music wirelessly to any room in your home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty cool video based on my original <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/wifiradio\">Wifi Radio\u00a0tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To leave comments or download the video, visit\u00a0<a title=\"Permanent Link to The Tech Junkies Episode #6\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/ttjcrew.com\/?p=109\">The Tech Junkies Episode #6<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of The Tech Junkies, Ben and Eric show how to hack an Asus WL-520gu wireless router into a music playback device. By loading the OpenWRT firmware onto the router and adding a USB sound card, it is possible to convert this cheap\/powerful router into a streaming box to be placed anywhere your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/the-tech-junkies-build-a-wifi-radio-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Tech Junkies Build a Wifi Radio (Video)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[443],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-2952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects-2","tag-wifiradio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-LC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":480,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/building-a-wifi-radio-part-3-hacking-the-asus-wl-520gu\/","url_meta":{"origin":2952,"position":0},"title":"Building a Wifi Radio &#8211; Part 3, Hacking the Asus WL-520GU","author":"Jeff","date":"October 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the third part of an ongoing series about building a low cost, open source streaming internet radio.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t already, check out part one and part two for some background about the project. Hacking the Asus WL-520GU Wireless Router: In the last part of this series, I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Electronics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Electronics","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/electronics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-3238164-10440897","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1655,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/video-hacking-the-asus-router-for-the-tweet-a-watt\/","url_meta":{"origin":2952,"position":1},"title":"Video: Hacking the ASUS router for the Tweet-a-Watt","author":"Jeff","date":"April 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"As I mentioned last week, Adafruit Industries is hacking the Asus WL-520gU wireless router to talk to the Tweet-a-Watt. Their hack is based on the work I did to create my Wifi Radio project. 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