{"id":158,"date":"2019-11-02T23:21:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T23:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2019-11-02T23:33:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T23:33:49","slug":"mark-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lns.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Mark in a Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some months back a friend of mine,\u00a0Mark Hernandez passed away. Mark was a smart, funny and strange guy. He was also active with KFCF<\/a> in Fresno and KPFA<\/a> in Berkeley. I was disappointed that there wasn’t a memorial (or one I heard about) for him. I started to work on an “art piece” that I think Mark would have liked.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we have audio of Mark from KFCF’s RPU program that was broadcast in the 1980s. I took a number of cuts of the audio from the “show” and put them on an SSD card, put that on an MP3 shield for a Mega Arduino board. Stuck the electronics in a box that I painted “urn” gold and put a lit button on it. Whenever you push the button, you get silly audio of Mark cut played back.<\/span><\/p>\n

I started off with a 6 sided (hexagon) box where the edges are routed so they slip into each other.\u00a0 Below you can see the joint corner.<\/p>\n

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I wanted the box to look pretty simple so I hid the power connector in the back and the speaker is on the bottom with a bit of wood for feet to lift the box about 1\/4 inch off the surface it is sitting on to not muffle the sound.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Inside the box you can see the Arduino Mega with the MP3 shield, speaker under the blue tape and cable to the button and power connector.<\/p>\n

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The completed box after painting it gold to look a bit like an urn…
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Here is a quick and small video of it doing its thing.<\/p>\n

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The hacky source that I really should clean up can be found at\u00a0https:\/\/github.com\/pozar\/mark_in_a_box<\/a>.\u00a0 The parts list can be found in the Docs directory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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