Saw this project on @hackaday and I might borrow some of it for #uhfplus

https://github.com/shane-mason/FieldStation42

@djsundog @ajroach42

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about, designing & prototyping various stand-alone music playing devices but recent events have me thinking about instead just building high-quality, foss, not stupid add-ons for great sounding “vintage” gear that just needs the ability to access radio streams, digital music libraries, etc.

In a way it’s a riff off #uhfplus, but for audio instead of video, and there’s enough overlap that the two devices could share a lot of parts.

This came to me as the old SONOS Play 3 that sounds great but has shit software has ceased to even play a public radio stream reliably, and my dog is sad because he loves public radio. I thought, “how fast could I slap something together that could play this stream reliably through my old Henry Kloss Model 1?”.

The answer was “about an hour”.

So maybe I firm-up the prototype a bit and turn it loose on a wider audience?

TFW you move three existing projects forward while avoiding starting a new one.

https://jasongullickson.com/preposterous-as-community-media-engine.html

#bdctv #preposterus #uhfplus

I’ve been using PeerTube for the experimental community TV station and it’s very slick, but it’s kind of overkill for what I need, especially because I’m running it on top of yunohost because I didn’t want to leave all the intricacies of setting up an instance.

Now that we’re past the sort of proof-of-concept stage (sorta), and because various things have rekindled my interest in working on media tech I’m considering moving the thing to a custom platform built out of #jsfs and other components I’ve worked on in the past for audio/video services.

We’ll see how far I get, but if it works it might make some of the other ideas I’ve had easier (looking at you #uhfplus ) and of course anything I build I’d be happy to share with others building community media projects.

We can now broadcast 24/7!

#uhfplus

Looks like I won’t be able to reuse the TV model I made earlier for #uhfplus type 2, the wide LCD that I’ll be masking to 4:3 interferes with the knobs so I’ll have to change the design to put the controls below the screen.

This is probably better tbh but will take a little more time, and the result with be a little more mid-century vs the current design which is more late-70’s/80’s.