Re:A floppy-disk Walkman using a Raspberry Pi
by edent on Monday September 07, 2020 @07:08AM
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I looked at getting an HDMI to Audio converter. But I couldn't find one which could be powered by USB.
Re:A floppy-disk Walkman using a Raspberry Pi
by gruturo on Monday September 07, 2020 @08:18AM
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Getting audio out on a pi0 requires a little bit of hardware hacking, but it's not at all impossible - the signal is there, you need a handful of components and some device tree settings: https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-zero...
Re:A floppy-disk Walkman using a Raspberry Pi
by soonoutoftime on Monday September 07, 2020 @07:53AM
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Do they need power? I use an hdmi to rca and it's not powered.
Edit: it did come with a usb cable to plug into it, but I never needed it. Unfortunately I don't know enough about hardware to know what's going on.
Re:A floppy-disk Walkman using a Raspberry Pi
by thecureforzits on Monday September 07, 2020 @09:20AM
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FWIW, PCM5102 boards off ebay are about $5 and work perfectly with the pi0. They don't support hardware mixing or volume control, but the sound quality is surprisingly good.
> Sadly, the Pi Zero doesn’t have an an audio out jack. But the USB floppy drive is pretty big, so we don’t lose much space by going for a full-sized Pi.
You could use a ZeroW which has bluetooth, and a bluetooth-to-3.5 adaptor to allow a wired connection. That would take less space than a full-bodied Pi and add extra parts to the hack for a bit more "dear [deity], why would you?" goodness!