[dundee] LUG project(s)

[tom stott]

Remote mounting it would make the "minuturisation" of it less of a
problem and even then give you more of an option to incl. dash mounted
optical drives. Plus people in the long term would probably feel happier
about pulling a box to bits thats on the boot (say to add or replace
HDD) than tearing apart thier pretty dash.

This is definitley doable  - could be fun! 

Tom




On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 08:57, Paul Lancaster wrote:
> sounds gooood, but giving wmv support would make it a universal type
> product.
> 
> Dashboard or remote mounted ?
> 
> Cdrom ?
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Clayton" <andrew@digital-domain.net>
> To: "TLUG" <dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:56 AM
> Subject: [dundee] LUG project(s)
> 
> 
> > On the subject of LUG projects, I have an what might be quite an
> > ambitious idea, that I've been mulling over the last year.
> >
> > Design and develop a car based mp3 player... not a new concept, I know.
> > Last time I checked, the only one I would touch was the empeg which is
> > no longer in development.
> >
> > This could even become commercially viable, but either way it would be a
> > fun project with the added bonus of the 'coolness' factor.
> >
> >
> >
> > Heres a 'brain dump' of my idea's.
> >
> >
> > Obviously this thing would be hard disk based and run some form of
> > Linux.
> >
> > There are plenty of embedded Linux development boards out there which
> > would have most of what we needed.
> >
> >
> > For getting your music onto the thing. USB has to be one method, but I'm
> > also thinking ethernet would also be very handy. This would allow the
> > use of such things as ftp and nfs/samba as file transfer mechanisms. And
> > provides a route for non USB capable people. E.g those of us running
> > years old Unix workstations.
> >
> > Certainly the kernel support for accessing it through USB is there and
> > the devices disk would just appear as a SCSI. The USB gadget project
> > would offer other interesting possibilities.
> >
> > I'm leaving firewire, irda and bluetooth out for now. Certainly serial
> > would be too slow, so thats out.
> >
> > The thing could be configured through a web interface or through telnet.
> >
> >
> > For me the hardest bit seems to be getting a usable interface on the
> > thing with a LCD screen etc.
> >
> >
> > The thing would handle MP3 (this may be prove interesting if it became
> > commercial) and ogg vorbis. I don't see the point in supporting .wmv
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Well thats pretty much my general thoughts on that....
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> >
> >
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