Quick demo of iPod clone - esp32-s3 based music player. still a lot of work to do. P.s speaker is not so great :)
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I’ve done a lot of work on this iPod menu. My project doesn’t play audio locally but it shouldn’t be hard to add it https://github.com/landonr/esphome-remote

Demo looks great! Ill check out the code difinitely

Can this be ported to Platformio?

https://github.com/fbiego/Lumia-ESP32

Dude that is fire. I’m here because I love the iPod and this dudes project led me this way. That said I feel the interface design is solid for other purposes and this fits. Well done.

Thanks! I’ve made a lot of progress in the past month I’m excited to share an update

That looks awesome!

Are you using the Adafruit featherwing for audio? 🙂 Im currently having troubles with mine, so I’m a bit curious about how you got it working 😅

Hi, yes I am and it wasn't very hard to be honest. Sure, what do you want to know?

Did you use the sample that Adafruit provides? I’m trying to get my esp32 running with it, but no sound is coming out 😅

Hmm…yes i have, in case u have s3 version try not playing it in background and make sure you choosed right spi pins

Thank you, will give it a try!

Impressive. That looks great!

Thank you very much! :)

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Great! Thx man! Looking forward to hear from you!!

That is impressive. I love that you scavenged a click-wheel from an actual iPod. What is the board that it's interfacing with?

The plan is to create new pcb in exact shape as original ipod logic board and refit it into old ipod. It is adafruit feather s3

Sorry, I meant what is the smaller board which the clickwheel ribbon cable plugs into. The one to the left of the clickwheel in your video.

I think that might just break out the clickwheel ribbon cable to 2.54mm headers.

Its just fpc breakout board 8 pin 0.5mm easily found on amazon and aliexpress

I didn't know those ribbon cables were standardized. Is 0.5mm the ribbon trace width?

any update on the custom pcb? do you have a github or a discord I can follow for updates?

Sure, i have a github link here but there is no progress since the video due to my health issue. Ill be fully recovered soon so ill post new updates as soon as they are made

It seems this GitHub is empty

True, i still havent updated it. The project was on hold till now. Ill update it this week.

any updates so far?

here is the github link...everything is in zip, i don't have time anymore so feel free to create new repository and project etc...any kind of credit is much appreciated

This is rad will it be opensource?

Yes it is, as soon as i make it stable ill share the code in hope that we can all work on the os itself…add extra apps etc. Hardware will be available as well

Will be forking to zune :p

I reeeealy would like the Reddit video player to work about now…

This is definitely a project I am interested in

Thanks man! Glad to hear that

That looks awesome! Would it work with any rotary encoder (or at least be able to be tweaked to do so)?

I've been thinking of making an mp3 player that plays from local sources and it seems that this project would do 90% of what I need. Will be following for sure :)

Is the music just placed in folders on the sd card and you navigate through that or do you use the metadata to organize it on the player?

Thanks man! You should tweak it a bit, replace clickwheel lib with rotary. For now its on the root of sd card bit in future ill try to combone metadata and folder structure

Now I'm considering getting one of the clickwheels for my project, it looks like a fun controller.

Anyway - looking forward to see your progress :)

It sure is :) thank you

What software is it running?

Is that a gen 5 wheel? Nice.