woahh one in a lifetime?

a second devlog??!?!?!

WHAAAAA?!

(quick btw note, we did like a 20 min session in school once that lead to nothing [img1])

We are back…

or are we?

the rpi said we were not…we spent like 30 min just trying to get the raspi to work againn with wifi, pain)

BUT NOW WE ARE!!!

in the airpod we found in arts (reread the last devlog <3) there was not enough place to fit our 3d printed resonance body…meaning i needed to make place

not me fisting the thing until i could rip out all the support walls and newspaper [img2]

but it was worthhhh it, now the complete stuff fits inside!

three times the charm ; right?

so last time we had to resolder the speaker like 4 times, and now we have to do so again (only 3 times); but now it holds, we switched the old cables to some demolished jumperwires at the last try! [img3]

so we booted…

and it would not conect, no matter how often i asked some random ai to debug, no matter how much of our combined 2 braincells we used…nothing was giving the result we wanted NOTHING [img4.1]

BUT THEN BUT THEN!!!

it suddenly worked, dunno why, it did let itself connect via spotify connect and bluetooth (sometimes bluetooth, depending on its mood)

WE FINALLY HEARD A SOUND THAT WAS ACTUALLY STREAMED!!!

[img4.2]

this is only a side fact [img4.3] @Chroma bumped his head against the table ripping out a support wall or smth…

but once we listed, we noticed something

the sound…it was muffled, not the true experience a high quallity product like AirPodsStudio should have, and the only valid reasoning was that the previosly designed body was not giving the sound back in its optimal way…so @Chroma used his (and claudes) combined 2 braincells to achieve and optimal design [img4.4],

This desing is printing RIGHT NOW

Stay tuned to see this journey come to an end

love you, and good evening or good night (the sun is rising rn HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)

New Project

with friends

Airpods BUT HUGGEEE

Like AirPods Studio….and working

1. The Situation

we started out with a random single big AirPod we found in our Arts Classroom, the teacher said we could take it…so we did

At home I had some old sony speakers…a raspberry pi, my 3d printer…and to much time…

soooo i forced my friends Maxi (@Lumethra) and David (@Chroma) to come over for a lock in night…we call them archnights (called like that bc we install arch on random laptops) BUT THIS TIME….we are building this speaker…

2. The First Hours

Started to open up the old Speakers so we could use the actual speaker thingi, first only of the one bc then we would not need to have an amp or any powersupply except for the raspberry pi…figured out later that the 3.5mm jack from the pi was to weak to power the speaker enough…so we broke open the second one later too.

at first we also wanted to use a pi zero 2w…which would not have worked bc it has no DAC…meaning I needed to sacrifice a Pi 4b of mine for the aux port…The first actual success came when isntalling librespot and we heard the first music on that device…but not exactly what we wanted from the firmware…the goal was to connnect the “speaker” via bluetooth OR spotify Connect

3. The Middle Hours

then @Chroma started designing a case for the speakers to fit perfectly inside our AirPod (during that time meme and @Lumethra installed arch on a random laptop) the design was (i quote) pretty straight forward. What wasnt was me trying to make a firmware after…i jumped around from reading existing repos or better said trying to understand existing repos…to vibecoding random shell scripts…and mixing all that together to a kind of working script that makes it possible to connect to the pi via bluetooth or Spotify at startup…not being able to change it unless rebooting the pi…right now i am kind of happy with the result…mainly because I managed to implement a startup sound when the bluetooth is discoverable.

while i was coding this all together…the 3d printer started printing the case…only for us to realize at 5 am that the filament broke, meaning it needs to print all over again…plus we cannot finish the project tonight (very sadge)

4. The Final Hours

cannot talk about them, did not happen yet

good night
love you <3