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RFID Music Player

Posted by timothy on from the reuse dept.

frazzydee writes "I know what you're thinking, RFID tags used to play music? Well, it turns out that we don't need to take out our tinfoil hats this time, because it turns out that are some constructive uses for the same RFID tags that we have all come to loathe. Since RFID tags can hold 1 kilobyte of data, somebody who goes by dividuum found that (s)he could use the tags combined with a reader to store and play back music. Dividuum used SID files- the same format used on Commodore 64s- and programmed everything in C. Pictures of the RFID device are available here."

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  1. Commdore 64 music by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    If I'm not wrong, the average .sid file for the C64 takes up about 2K of memory. The sids must have been pretty small to fit on the RFID.

    Some interesting Commodore 64 music links:-
    The HVSID Collection - Which is the main site for the collection of thousands upon thousands of Commodore 64 sid files.
    Remix.kwed.org Remixes of Commodore 64 tunes with real and modern synthesized instruments.

    (Don't hammer their servers!)

    I'm off to play "Lazy Jones" (aka ZombieNation)

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    READY.
    PRINT ""+-0
  2. Suffering Christ in a thorn bonnet... by absurdist · · Score: 3, Interesting
    ...are there ANY real hackers out there?

    And no, I'm not talking about 1337 case modders or overclockers. I'm talking about real hackers like this one. Doing hardware and software hacks that are done just for the sheer joy of doing them, and can be done because they CAN.

    Mod me down as flamebait if you will. This is something very cool. Who the hell cares if it's practical. Neither is a machine that can turn ordinary dog biscuits into india ink. But the hack value is enormous.

    (tip o' the pin to Bill Griffith... thanks, Griffy!)