Tangara is a portable music gamer. It outputs top quality noise through a 3.5-mm earphone jack, lasts a complete day on a charge, and consists of a processor that’s effective enough to support any audio format you can toss at it. It’s likewise 100% open hardware running open-source software application, that makes it simple to tailor, fix, and upgrade. Tangara plays what you wish to hear, nevertheless you wish to hear it.
Listen to music, audio books, and podcasts on a purpose-built gadget with a reliable kind aspect, a familiar interface, and no interest in your information. Or tear it apart and put it back together once again. By tweaking our present firmware, you can try out alternative user-interface patterns, brand-new kinds of material, tracker-based music production, alarm-clock applications, and a lot more. Or you can create a brand-new faceplate with a various type of display screen panel, more physical buttons, speakers, jacks, or … a cherry-wood enclosure? Whatever turns your clickwheel.
Tangara is fantastic DIY platform for non-audio applications. The ESP32 module at its core is popular amongst those who delight in checking out and discovering about (other individuals’s) Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections. Unlike the majority of such platforms, nevertheless, it likewise offers you a full-color screen, a battery, and a one-finger touch user interface to deal with.
Functions & & Specifications
- ESP32-based, with a WM8523 DAC and an INA1620 amplifier
- 3.5-mm audio output with assistance for 200 mW at 32 ohms
- Present assistance for 16-bit audio at 44.1 or 48 kHz (DAC maxes out at 24 bits and 192-kHz)
- Bluetooth audio assistance (SBC codec just)
- Firmware supports MP3, FLAC, Opus, and Vorbis codecs
- USB Type-C charging and firmware updates. Information transfer (by means of SAMD21 + tinyusb) in advancement
- 2200-mAh battery with a requirement, 3-pin JST adapter
- 4-mA standby present and ~ 120 mA active present, depending upon the earphones and the volume
- 1.8-inch, 160×128 full-color TFT screen
- 2 hardware buttons and a versatile, capacitive ‘clickwheel’
- An ERM haptic motor
- Utilizes a requirement, SDXC card for storage. Offered approximately 2 TB
- Firmware based upon ESP-IDF, composed in C++ 17
- A beautiful cool retro transparent enclosure
Open Source
Our software application, firmware, and hardware style files are offered on sourcehut.
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