Trevor Warren wrote:
MP3_PCB_ASSEM MP3 Player Board, Fully Assembled and Tested $150 MP3_DISPLAY LCD Display For MP3 Player, 24x8, with Pushbuttons and Cables $42 CABLE_IDE_LAPTOP Cable for Laptop (2.5 inch) IDE Hard Drive, 1.4 Inch Length $9 STANDOFF Standoff Set For Mounting Laptop Hard Drive $3 PWR_12VDC 12 Volt DC Power Adaptor (US only) $8 SIMM_32M Standard 72 Pin SIMM, 32 Megs, Used $8 Totals :- 220$
For learning purposes see if you can manage with a normal HDD instead of a laptop's. That will bring down your costs and use locally available cables. Make your own power supply.
JTD can guide on this. Can a pci i/o card (Rs. 1k2 only) be used with some extra circuit (without any mobo) to get access to a HDD and then convert its signals into mp3 using an open source program loaded into a memory chip? Can pci standards be used on a pci card without a pci slot mobo?
Regards,
Rony.
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