[geeks] home mp3 system suggestions

[Dave Kimmel]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:41:45PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:52:03PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:48:44PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:39:48PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:30:21PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > > > > The high-speed serial you are looking for is called "ethernet" :-)
> > > > > Uck.  I would expect that this would be a lot harder than a real point to
> > > > > point connection.
> > > > Not really.  That's what the device drivers and the network stack do.
> > > Can you point to information on ethernet project chips?
> >
> > No, buy a cheap ethernet card.
>
> And how does one interface a DAC chip, and a few buttons to an
> ethernet card?  I'm assuming you are talking about an ISA card...

With a PIC/68HC11/microcontroller of choice, of course.  I've found plenty
of info on interfacing an 8051 to an MP3 decoder chip and an IDE hard
drive.  The MP3 decoder talks to the DAC itself, so that's not too much of
an issue.

-- Dave Kimmel
   crisco_kid at shaw.ca