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DIY Ethernet Audio Receiver
geo writes "I created this site to describe my latest toy: a digital audio multicast receiver. LANPipe receives 16-bit, 44.1 kHz audio multicast from a PC based server. The server uses a Winamp plug-in, so LANPipe can play almost any source format (mp3, ogg, uncompressed). It even has a digital audio output. The receiver uses a custom CPU written in VHDL and implemented on a Xilinx FPGA. This was a fun project that is best appreciated by fellow hardware geeks."
Hmm...what's the point in this? Is it just one "because it's possible" things?
Ok so this means I'm not a hardware geek! oh no!
I mean that, I really do.
But so many of you are unemployed, out of work, and just barely scraping by with enough money to pay rent, take care of wife/kids, etc. I know some Slashdotters personally who have had to move back in with their parents. I know some college graduates who will, come this May, be moving back home.
So I urge you all to start a job campaign and spend your free time refining your resumes rather than tinkering around with computer hardware like the author of this story does. Sure, it's kind of neat, but it's not practical, of no interest to potential employers, and is overall a waste of time and resources.
Please go buy a suit, print out your resumes, and start smiling at people. You need jobs folks, and they don't grow on trees.
Excuse me for pointing out the obvious, but why not pick up a plain ordinary FM tuner and a phono-to-minijack lead? Then you can just plug it into your sound card.
It would be neat?