and if you don't want to wait, you can get an open hardware music player hre as well: https://cooltech.zone/tangara/

they're different -- tangara is an ipod homage with custom firmware and a touchwheel. echo r1 is meant to run rockbox with buttons.

they differ in i/o ports as well: tangara has a regular old headphone jack. echo r1 has a TRRS jack and a line-out jack.

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My big wish list item for this would be a clickwheel. But I'm guessing the ones Sony is using are made in-house. But super cool!

https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders...

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I love this.

I know it's not "open", but it would be great if the MCAD was done in Onshape. For better or worse its the closest thing we in the mechanical world have to a collaborative editor.

I'd be delighted to contribute.

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> It's primarily designed to run Rockbox

Fuck yeah

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I have been wanting something like this for so long. Ideally it could be modded for a 18650 battery or two, which are far more available than BL-5C.

I love it! I used to be a huge fan of Rockbox.

Saw the title and had hoped it might be a new open source firmware for the Amazon Echo.