2024-03-20, 04:36 PM
I've wanted to make a functional version of the Wendell & Wild's boombox for some time and I think the tangara might help by providing most of the guts.
In practice, I would have 3 parts or 4 parts. Speakers would be connected through jack. Volume meter might piggy back on that or be connected to a "faceplate" alongside the top buttons. It would have plenty of space so I could probably have a mnt reform battery providing power for extra power to the speaker and/or extra long playing session.
The tape part would probably be the hardest if going old school but I have other plan. What I like about the tape is the object, not exactly the medium. So I could replace the tape player by a pitch edge card connector, make a PCB that's simply 2 SD card reader with each exposing its contact on one side, a 3D printed shell looking like a tape shell. I would get an object that looks and feel like an audio tape in hand, it would have two face for two playlist with much larger capacity than a tape. The edge connector would expose one side of the connected PCB as an SD card, like one of these SD card extender, which can be plugged in the tangara.