i managed to shorten the range of the easyradio modules by giving the sender no antenna at all and the receiver only a short one. now, the yampp is only activated within a range of 2,5-3 meters.
Archive for July, 2006
clip the range
Sunday, July 9th, 2006arduino + yampp + easy radio schematics
Sunday, July 9th, 2006here’s how to connect a YAMPP III industrial MP3 Player to an Arduino Board.
and here’s how to get the serial data in via an easy radio module. the arduino just remembers which song has been played and prevents it from being played again. i do it this way, because the “stations” will repeatedly send out the byte for their Audiofile, and the yampp would start to play the song every time it receives the signal.
download the code here: CrossEasyradio.zip
yampp and arduino want to play together
Thursday, July 6th, 2006
cross FM?
Monday, July 3rd, 2006while listening to the stream of read-out news headlines, i came up with another idea:
what if the stations (did i mention that i want to re-introduce real stations that wirelessly trigger the appropriate files?) bear the content themselves? an endless stream of read-out news matching the keywords transmitted by low-power FM transmitters? and the Cross is just a receiver?
the stations are then placed along a pilgrims path…
i like the idea. why did i buy a mp3 player that i cant make work?
auditive output
Monday, July 3rd, 2006although i like the idea of music as content, there were some more ideas:
the suffering of christ is a symbol of hope and is traduced as a means to keep us going. so, why not play people’s opinions about why life is good?
the german magazine jetzt (which exists only as an online magazine for a while) has a “lebenswert” (== worth living for) podcast, where people talk about what they love about their life. why not listen to living people instead of long time dead?
people talk about their feelings in their blogs. they feel misjudged, exploited, they are made fun of, they watch their loved ones suffer and die – and they write about it.
i am using the built-in reading function of adobe reader to generate audio output from this. here’s a blog entry found on technorati while searching for “verleumdet”. listen
the same principle works on google news, too. i like the unintentional collage-technique applied by the excerpts chosen around the keywords. the reading has a hypnotic quality which is brilliant for meditation… honestly, after listening to it for hours… listen and listen
