The pan is to build an MP3 player based on sparkfun’s module.
Main parts:
1. VS1002 MP2 decoder chip
. sparkfun breakout board here
. board schematics here in pdf
. datasheet for VS1002

2. CF card reader
. sparkfun breakout board

3. PIC chip

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PLAN is to adapt “super-simple MP3″ design:
1. code around here
2. parts and schematics
3. make VS1002 backwards compatible with older VS1001 that is in the original design.

Electronic Crafts / doing-it-ourselves.

01. Proposition
Investigate possible impact of democratization of innovation on the fields of product design and communication, focusing more specifically on electronics and physical computing technologies.
What kind of new approaches, products and models could emerge from a wide-spread movement of more and more people doing-it-themselves?
What would be the consequence to the world of design and interactive creation?

I am also interested in exploring and refining a methodology of electronic crafts based on practices similar to what is done at ITP and spreading trough already emerging open source hardware information networks.
What can a craftsmenship approach bring to the future of new technologies?

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