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Rockbox Player - Project to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player
markun:
I was thinking we might save ourselves some trouble if we could use the screen, case, LCD and buttons of an existing DAP and just design our own mainboard for it.
The question is which DAP would be a good donor...
I guess, price and the quality of the components are important. And if the player by itself is very nice already it also doesn't make much sense.
toffe:
For the case, you can make prototype easily with companies like this one:
http://www.emachineshop.com/
You can even know the price just doing the drawing.
For the electronic part, you can go with the new 16gb memory from Toshiba (no yet on the market but announced), so no need for a hard drive.
gigabeatbox:
so i know this may sound like a dumb question im not sure if anyone asked it yet cuz i didn't have time to read pgs 2 and 3, but is this player going to be based around rockbox and all its features, like would the firmware still be rockbox, or what?
Bagder:
"This player" is mostly talk and afaik no actual plans are yet made.
On a related subject, Neuros plans on making an open source portable audio player:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=11084.0
gigabeatbox:
Oh I see, I'm sorry I wasn't aware of that.
I read all four pages, but I am not very 'technically aware,' so I had trouble understanding all the things people wrote, so has there been any progress? Where exactly in the conceptual stages is this project? It seems like it has quite a few supporters.
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