Back in Black - a DIY raspberry pi Boombox: Bill of Materials

See the Inspiration section.

Bill of Materials

The BinB Boombox reuses many of the components from the Day & Night Sampler build:

• raspberry pi; I got mine from mcmelectronics.com, $35 plus shipping
• Patriot WiFi USB dongle, model PCWUSB1150, on sale at Fry's, $7.99; 
• adafruit also has these wifi dongles , $11.95
• adafruit perma-prototype board, part ID 723 $5.95
• adafruit Vacuum Fluorescent  Display 20 Char x 2 Lines, part ID 347 , $29.95 (Since Discontinued!)
• adafruit panel mount 2.1 mm DC barrel jack, part ID 610  $2.95
• Syba (C-Media) USB sound adapter, available at amazon.com $7.99
• 3.5mm headphone extension, male-to-male, under $5 on ebay
• USB Short Extension cable, Type A Male to Female, about $3-5 from ebay; use with the C-Media USB sound adapter
• adafruit 8 Bit (TTL) Logic Level Converter for interfacing the VFD to the pi, product ID 735, $1.50
• adafruit mini remote control, product ID 389 , $5; Or, any surplus remote control you have
• IR Sensor, TSOP38238, available at adafruit, product ID 157 , $1.95; also Mouser and others
• SDHC Card, available at adafruit and others, adafruit part ID 102, $7.95
• Lighted push button switch, about $4.00
• in this build, I used a fancy one from Seeedstudio with Open Source Hardware Logo, $9.90
• Misc jumpers and wire

New or changed for this build are:

• Enclosure/Frame - I used an 18in x 24in sheet of 1/4in black cast acrylic, $45 at Tap Plastics
• 12V Power Adapter - 3 A or above with 2.1MM DC Plug output (mine was from inventory)
• Optional - battery; recommend a 12V SLA (Sealed Lead Acid), but will add significant weight
• Adafruit UBEC - Universal Battery Elimination Circuit to step 12V down to 5V, $9.95
• Sure Electronics 0832/3208 LED Matrix - under $20 on ebay
• Adafruit has a nice 16x32 RGB LED matrix, $24.95 
• Adafruit 20W Class D amp, $19.95
• Adafruit 20W 4 Ohm Speaker (two needed), $14.95
• Adafruit Neopixel 12 Ring (two needed) for the "VU Meters", $7.50 each
• Sparkfun Spectrum Shield, $24.95
• Arduino Stackable Headers from Sparkfun for the Spectrum Shield, $1.50
• Additional 3.5mm male to male headphone extension (Spectrum Shield to amp)
• Arduino Uno (substitute can be Leonardo/Clone), $24.95
• Sugru, Hot Glue, E6000, double-sided tape to fasten things
• Cable ties. Lots of them. Corral those loose wires.

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