Although the front panel had started to take shape it wasn’t finished yet. Mostly what was left to do was to drill holes for the buttons and encoder and some spray painting for both the housing and the front panel. Here’s the front panel from behind with both the LCD and buttons attached.
And from the [...]
Before undertaking a new larger task in any project I always tend to be a bit hesitant to get started. This was the case before starting the work on the front panel. Somehow I felt that I have this solid piece of wood and when I start working on it there is always the chance [...]
As promised. The first sample code for my project. If you intend to run this yourself, please be aware that there are quite a few assumptions that has been made.
Firstly the wiring: Please see AlarmClockConfig.h file for the pins. The exact wiring can be found in previous posts on this blog. At some time I [...]
And after a very long hiatus it’s time to pick up where I left of.
A lot has happend since the last post. New job, new house and a million little details in between. Anyways, moving to a new house also means I’ve got a new dedicated working area. No more hogging the dining table.
The current [...]
There has not been any updates for a while mostly because I’m currently getting started with the next phase of the project. I’ve got all my hardware working for the mp3/sd-card/alarm clock but currently the output is not amplified at all so it can only drive a pair of head phones. So the next big [...]
Finally it’s time to put all in together now. I’ve had all the hardware wired up for a couple of days now with everything working it seems. I’ve been focusing mostly on the software trying to learn the inner details of the Arduino IDE. It seems very limiting and I consider to move, in the [...]
I’ve been meaning to put up some pictures of all my tools and components that I’m using in my project and I finally got around to photograph it all. So without further ado, here goes:
First up is some general tools. Cutting wires and measuring current is obviously needed.
Moving on to some soldering tools. This soldering [...]
Warning: This is a very long and newbie-ish (because I’m a noob myself) post but I wanted to keep everything as understandable as possible and also cover everything needed no matter the readers previous knowledge.
I’ve been trying to make my Arduino Duemilanove control my VS1002 on a breakout board for a while now and I’ve [...]
I’ve been struggling for a while now to get my VS1002 MP3 decoder on breakout board to work properly and finally, yesterday morning before hurrying of to work I was able to hear the test signal for the first time. I will post all the details about the wiring and the code soon because this [...]
I don’t seem to be able to get the MP3 decoder to work. I think I’ve wired everything up correctly but it has been difficult to find definitive information.
Currently I’ve removed all other components to just focus on interfacing the Arduino with the VS1002. I still haven’t been able to figure out if it is [...]