Ka-chunk. Let’s face it, 8-tracks weren’t that nice. However the gamers, that’s one other story. The Panasonic RQ-830S, aka the dynamite or TNT participant is only one of many pretty designs that used to grace the cabinets of electronics shops. Hackaday alum [Cameron Coward] got here throughout a non-working mannequin and used it to create the KaboomBox.
Identical to earlier than, all [Cameron] has to do is stick a tape in, and music begins taking part in. However now, as a substitute of utilizing rust on tape, the music is accessed by way of RFID and lives on an SD card contained in the 8-track participant.
Energy it on, and a tiny LCD display screen exhibiting by the monitor quantity window first shows the KaboomBox emblem, then exhibits a timer every time it’s ready for a tape. And similar to earlier than, pushing down on the plunger skips to the subsequent monitor.
The brand new guts embody a Raspberry Pi Pico and an RFID reader, plus a DF Participant Mini to deal with the digital-to-analog conversion and amplify the sign, and an SD card to retailer the music. Now, [Cameron] is simply restricted by the dimensions of the SD card. Take a look at the demo video after the break.
We’ve seen every kind of boomboxen round right here, from the lit to the Bluetooth to the payphone selection.
