Hack your own WiFi web radio boombox

by Paul Miller, posted Feb 24th 2006 at 3:18PM

We just saw Nathan True's wireless music player based on a hacked Netgear router, but this time we've got a custom built WiFi boombox with speakers in tow. This hack, by Isnoop, is also Linux based, and uses a USB flash drive for storage, but implements a tiny motherboard to run the show. The boombox sniffs for WiFi networks and then automatically connects to a web radio station. Now if it just didn't sound like a crappy little boombox -- that's Isnoop's next project.

[Via Smart Mobs]

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Wireless

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chris @ Feb 24th 2006 3:57PM

tiny mainboard my ass! that's a shuttle SFF! small, sure, tiny, hell no! micro-itx is tiny, gumstix is tiny, shuttle is not what I'll call tiny.

impressive mod with that big a board :)

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Joe @ Aug 7th 2007 11:05PM

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