It seems the audio cape rev 2 isn't available anywhere. I'm working on my radio product, but the board is primarily an audio board with a 20W amplifier on-board (and power regulation and some I/O).
Does anyone think there's a market for me to be able to make and sell 100 of these? I can't imagine 100 people want to make antique podcast players, but maybe?
I'm also open to feedback to making the board more generically useful (e.g. stackable headers).
Thanks,
It seems the audio cape rev 2 isn’t available anywhere. I’m working on my radio product, but the board is primarily an audio board with a 20W amplifier on-board (and power regulation and some I/O).
Does anyone think there’s a market for me to be able to make and sell 100 of these? I can’t imagine 100 people want to make antique podcast players, but maybe?
I’m also open to feedback to making the board more generically useful (e.g. stackable headers).
Thanks,
Antique podcast player - Probably not. But I would imagine if you made the board / software generic enough, others would / could have use.
Hardware wise, I’m having a hard time imaging how it would / could be generic enough. As long as it just plays music. But software wise, if you made a device tree file to load the needed pin configurations, and provided decent documentation / and skeleton code. I’d imagine many would / could be interested.
One such project immediately pops into my mind. A remote media player. e.g. something low power, and network connected that could be remote controlled. Through a web app even . . . but that’s something that I’ve already worked on some myself.
But I don’t know, there are already many music “options” out there already. It’s kind of hard to imagine how this would be different / unique in capability. Maybe if it had music sync to lights built in or something ?
Well, it's unique in the sense that it offers not only the CODEC, but amplification that can directly drive decent (but not huge) speakers. My current board also provides level shifting and sufficient power to drive a decent strand of WS2811 LEDs. I also provide 1.8V for use with the ADC (in my case, I drive potentiometers for user input). With stackable headers, the vast majority of the rest of the pins would still be available for other uses.
Anyway, maybe I'll do a kickstarter/preorder of some kind, see if I can get enough revenue to build 100 boards.
Thanks for the feedback!
Well, it’s unique in the sense that it offers not only the CODEC, but amplification that can directly drive decent (but not huge) speakers. My current board also provides level shifting and sufficient power to drive a decent strand of WS2811 LEDs. I also provide 1.8V for use with the ADC (in my case, I drive potentiometers for user input). With stackable headers, the vast majority of the rest of the pins would still be available for other uses.
Anyway, maybe I’ll do a kickstarter/preorder of some kind, see if I can get enough revenue to build 100 boards.
Thanks for the feedback!
The WS28XX option will probably be a draw for hobbyists anyway.