December 2004
Beginner
336 pages
14h 32m
English
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Chapter 9, Create Time-Shifted FM Radio
Exhibit A: Bill of Materials
This list shows the parts that I used, though of course you can substitute
parts from other manufacturers. All parts are available from large hardware
stores or home-automation web sites.
Item Quantity Approximate
cost
Infrared PS2 keyboard 1 $30
Hauppauge WinTV-Go-FM card (Model 191) 1 $50
Crane Digital FM Transmitter 1 $80
Powermid set (transmitter and receiver) 1 $53
Extra Powermid IR transmitter 1 $34
Sony RM-VL900 learning remote 1 $40
Exhibit B: Software Versions
This list shows the versions of software components originally used to cre-
ate this project, for your reference. You can, and should, use updated ver-
sions whenever possible.
Description Version
Red Hat Linux personal edition 9.1
Frank 0.1
XMMS 1.2.8
Aumix 2.7
SoX 12.17.3
OggEnc 1.0
FM Tools 0.99.1
KRadio 0.3.0-alpha2
Perl 5.8.0
XBindKeys 1.6.4
Xmms::Remote 0.12
Ogg::Vorbis::Header 0.03
Exhibit B
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