We’re psyched about all of the cool kits that MAKE is releasing for the holidays, especially the open source MP3 kit, the Daisy. If you haven’t gone to Raphael Abrams’s site yet, here’s the link. He’s Daisy’s creator. Hopefully, as the kit gets sold and projects made, he’ll have more application content on the site. Right now, you can download Daisy’s PDF manual, source code, and schematics. After the jump is the parts schematic showing the layout of everything on the PCB.
You may be unaware of the fact that Raphael has several other, cheaper, open source MP3 kits available. The Sakura, “The World’s Simplest Open Source DIY MP3 Player” is here ($72) and the Super Simple MP3 ($72) is here. These are more complicated to build and less user-friendly than the Daisy, but cheaper, much smaller, and may serve you better if you’re mainly interested in embedded type applications.
I can’t wait to see how all of these players get hacked and what sorts of cool cases and mods people come up with.
