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Building A Museum Listening Station?

Posted by timothy on from the use-ogg-too-but-how dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "I am building a museum exhibit which requires the use of 10 listening stations. These should be able to play back a few minutes of audio, should have an obvious Play button (and no other buttons: less confusion for the elderly and less to break for the kids), and should be able to work with an absolute minimum of supervision for three months of constant use. There are fancy ready-made solutions to this problem, but at $350, it would be too expensive to buy 10 of them. Similarly, there are cheap solutions ($20 CD player + $15 headphones), but this is probably not reliable or user friendly enough for this exhibit. Does the Slashdot community have any suggestions for how to build a reasonably inexpensive museum listening station?"

5 of 251 comments (clear)

  1. Who is driving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bear is driving!
    How can that be (first post)?

  2. guess what... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st post!

    1. Re:guess what... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You failz0r!

  3. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post!!!!

  4. the best approach... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is simply to offshore the problem to India.