Retro-Style Radio by pauljs75
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An ol' model of mine that I had sitting around from some product design project in college. Basically it incorporates design cues from the past in a modern electronic product. I figure there could be more use for it. Hopefully it passes muster for the marketplace.
Comments (3)
Charberry
Very cool!!
tallpindo
The antenna looks like it is FM. AM would be a simple wire racetrack on the back or a loop stick inside on the floor of the case. I assume the buttons on top are presets one can pull out and set. There are no numbers on the dial to help with identifying stations. Maybe it's a weather radio with limited tuning.
pauljs75
Still stuck too hard on the past, huh?... Yes it has presets, so you got one thing right. But the circle face is a custom die LCD with a green backlight. The text and numbers there aren't static. But such things cannot animate without posting a huge .gif. (And not only does it animate for station identification or date and time, but the display changes for other things, like when tuning or adjusting volume.) Features AM (internal bar antenna), FM Stereo, and MP3 jukebox (via internal HDD, accessable with USB on back or SD card slot.) And the concept of operation isn't far from that of modern automotive radios. Left knob: push (on/off), turn for volume. Right knob: push to bring up options, turn to select or for tuning in radio mode. And the knobs are rotary encoders, no hard stops to risk breaking like the potentiometers from the old days. Yes, I actually devised a product manual as part of the design study. I came up with some clever ways of doing things with only 7 buttons (pushing the knob counts as a button) and two selection knobs. It could actually be workable for a clean and uncluttered interface. I'm suprised nobody has worked a similar system out simply for nice aesthetics, rather than to make do with space limitations of car radios.