RFID Music Player 157
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."
Re:1 kb (Score:3, Interesting)
Greetings!
This is what a Commodore-64 is!
Commodore 64 [oldcomputers.net]
Judging from your high UID and your apparent inexperience with the computers of 1982, I feel fully justified in blazenly assuming that 1 Kb of YOUR music is MORE than enough. 0.058 seconds of "Dad won't buy me a car, homework sucks" is exactly the right amount.
(Take it easy - I'm from 1980 myself and employing ironic humor - being an ass to mock the young kids (and I'm justified in mocking the Commodore-64 because I grew up on a Vic-20, thanks for asking.))
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Re:An actual usefull use (Score:3, Interesting)
Now, if I had suggested that RFIDs should be incorporated into Lego bricks with a blue tooth interface for license rights, and that the end user could build a Star Wars inspired spaceship model out of those legos to store the digital rights to their entire media collection, (perhaps even a Beowulf cluster of RFID enabled Lego bricks which could compress and decompress ogg music files) that would be more in line with Slashdot, and that would be funny.
Suffering Christ in a thorn bonnet... (Score:4, Interesting)
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!)