mp3 idea

pyromanic13 · Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:15 pm

is it possible to make a little... something that I could plug a thumb/flash drive into and carry around listening to music?

I know thats a very vague description but do you think its possible? I'd want it at most to be alittle bigger than a shuffle. just throwing it out there...

frankrede · Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:49 pm

You could but it would be expensive and cheap. Just get a shuffle.

saladtossser · Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:59 pm

it will be huge with the battery and stuff, and trust me, button batteries wont do at all, and its not like usb keys are ment to proccess music

M3NT4L · Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:12 pm

I made one from some scraped/destroyed players that the guy working at radio shaq gave me for free, i bought a 2 gig thumb drive and then attached all the bits and peices to it and i put it inside a pez disposer (the battery had to be put on the outside.) IT LOOKED AWSOME till it broke.

boilingleadbath · Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:15 pm

Do you mean like <a href="http://www.ladyada.net/make/minty/">this</a>?

pyromanic13 · Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:09 pm

does the minty use a flash drive I skimmed over it and it looked asthough it didn't?

flyingspuds2007 · Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:29 am

i think m3nt4l used one of those mp3 players that has the removable flash drive.
or he could be a one-upper, as most players use smt technology, which is a !@@!! to solder...

it could be done though, and i THINk you could do it with a gumstix computer and a Lipo batery, butt it would probably be beter to go with a storebought player

singularity · Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:30 am

i've seen a few mp3 players that are $15. of course they come with no on-board memory and only have basic functions (play, stop, next, back) they have no display but you know its only $15 (i think i saw one for $9 a little while ago, and it was brand new)