Vintage radio hacked into a docking station
— June 17th, 2013
Mr. Oyvind from Oslo sent us a cool hack of a 75-years-old radio into an iPhone dock using an Arduino.
On his website you can read the complete tutorial or download the code and below you can have more details on the way he used the board:
the Arduino is used to read the state of the dual potentiometer that controls the volume and then translate this value into a certain number of LEDs being lit on the volume indicator.I am using a Duemilanove. The code for the project is very simple and can be found here:http://www.build-electronic-circuits.com/wp-content/ uploads/2013/05/radio_ino.zip
- An overview of the inside of the dock (very messy, I know 😉 )
- Here you can see the 4 wires used to control the volume display connected to digital input 2, 3, 4 and 5 on the left side of the board. And you can see the potentiometer connected to 3.3V, analog input 0 and ground on the right side of the board.
June 23rd, 2013 at 17:22:57
Cool radio, always nice to see something old turned in to something new 🙂
July 7th, 2013 at 06:22:33
What you wrote was very reasonable. But, what
about this? suppose you added a little content? I ain’t suggesting your content isn’t good.
, but what if you added a title to maybe grab
people’s attention? I mean Arduino Blog ? Blog Archive ? Vintage radio hacked into a docking station is kinda boring. You should look at Yahoo’s home page and watch how
they create news headlines to grab people to open the links.
You might try adding a video or a pic or two to get people
interested about what you’ve got to say. Just my opinion, it would bring your blog a little livelier.