When you weren’t already effectively conscious, the 90s are like, so sizzling proper now, and that features cassette tapes for some cause. (Though we personally didn’t have a CD participant till 1998, they had been round as early as 1982.) However in the event you don’t dig the standard of cassettes, or in the event you’d simply quite carry round greater than 45-120 minutes value of music, than [John Edgar Park]’s Walkmp3rson is certainly the construct for you. That’s pronounced ‘Walkperson’, as in a twenty first century MP3-based replace of the basic Walkman.
Inside this superb 3D printed enclosure, you’ll discover an Adafruit Feather RP2040 controlling the display, dealing with enter from the rotary encoder and people candy mechanical keyswitches, and naturally, enjoying audio information from SD playing cards by the amplifier breakout board. And no, this isn’t simply one other MP3 participant — effectively, it type of is, however the presentation actually goes a good distance right here.
There are tons of retro-modern nods, just like the cassette reel animation that performs on the TFT display, the boxy enclosure, and the very fact it includes bodily media. Oh sure — you get to insert an SD card everytime you need to change albums/discographies/genres/no matter. Actually, this is able to be an ideal use of older, smaller SD playing cards. You could possibly go all out and make tiny album artwork to slide inside these milky plastic instances. Take a look at the temporary demo video after the break.
Trying to play your tunes on a microcontroller, however not a fan of the Walkman aesthetic? In June we coated the same audio participant powered by the ESP32 that does an uncanny impersonation of a transportable tape deck that you just could be curious about.
