Technical
Build and flash your own MusicBox
The box becomes genuinely reproducible: three ways to build it, and best of all, the firmware flashes straight from your browser, with nothing to install.
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Workshop notes.
The story and updates from the project
Technical
Presenting the mobile app
After months of work, I'm really happy to introduce the MusicBox mobile app. An iOS and Android app to manage and control the box remotely.
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Starting from a blank page
Leaving the Raspberry Pi for an ESP32, rewriting the whole codebase in C++, redesigning the case to make it simpler. The prototype changes its foundations.
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Making the box shareable
The third Raspberry Pi prototype: a web interface to manage the content, a battery to make it portable, buttons for interactive stories. A complete system, with its code open source.
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Evolving the Prototype
Time for the next prototype: Blender, a magnetized turntable, a custom PCB, and plenty of hardware headaches. A detour through 3D modeling before coming back to something simpler.
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From a Chrono Trigger Melody to a Music Box
How the desire to share a video game soundtrack with my son led me to build my own music box.
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