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[–] solrize@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

For the more adventurous, Tangara’s ESP32 firmware is written in C++ using the ESP-IDF framework. ... Tangara’s battery is a standard LiPo pouch cell with a 3-pin JST connector. ... Active battery life depends on use case (typically >20 hours)

Sorry, thanks but not thanks. Make it use a swappable 18650 and run Rockbox. Also it costs $250 which might have been ok in the early 2000s but is outlandish today. Finally it's Crowdsupply, which is not a scam but is a pain to deal with. And the battery drain is a lot too. Sandisk players were getting 10+ hours on an AAA cell in 2005 or so. This is just not an interesting product and the makers should have spent a few evenings on the Rockbox forums before starting the project.

[–] shifty@leminal.space 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks for this! I didn't know about Rockbox before.

[–] JOMusic@lemmy.ml 31 points 6 days ago

$271,285 raised of $10,000 goal. That's some pretty good odds of success

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 7 points 6 days ago

I'd rather see a project that brings back legacy Zunes - completely jailbreaks or ROMhacks the Zune software. The hardware was badass and you could easily retrofit SSDs into them. The software needs some sprucing up though.

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 5 days ago

For the people that don't want to click through to find the code:

https://codeberg.org/cool-tech-zone/-/projects/12798

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Can we get an Open-Hardware CD-ROM/Optical-disk reader for our PCs ?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 6 days ago

Glad to see its on crowd supply

[–] Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Does it come with open source earbuds?

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

No earbuds, player only.

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've waited so long for one but it's too underpowered for the price.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How can this be underpowered?

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

8 mb of ram and 240mHZ. I know the costs are bigger for new companies but an rpi zero is 15-20€ and it has 1gGHZ and 512mb of ram. There's no problem if they have very good optimized code but it shouldn't cost 250$

[–] yopyop@feddit.nl 2 points 6 days ago

Could it run Rockbox ? My iPods and sansa run with rockbox, it's awesome.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How large a library can it handle? I've had two others similar but they parsed files so slowly as to be ultimately useless

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

you'd have to be pretty dumb to fuck up text parsing that badly. Maybe if you don't implement segmented processing, and have a 50k line text file or something.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Guess maybe 30GB of files in an avg of 10MB bites is a chore

i wouldn't know, i'm sure we'll know soon enough though.

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