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Boxie – an always offline audio player for my 3 year old


How I built a simple portable audio player for my boy, summoning the spirit of the Gameboy

In my introductory post I described a few electronic toys he uses frequently, including the Tonie Box, a device that plays audiobooks and has a huge library of content. Eventually, you'll write your own Arduino like framework to handle all the low level stuff, like communicating with SPI displays, driving audio or neopixels, etc. It features a bay for the 3 AAA NiMH batteries, a few spacers to make positioning the top on the bottom easier, and a weird little contraption consisting of what looks like a rod and two screw holes.

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