Going Loonie: Rebuilding the tape deck experience with Elixir, Nerves and RFID
summary
An open‑source, cassette‑style recorder is built using Elixir and Nerves on a Raspberry Pi with an RC522 RFID reader, MPD for local playback, a small amplifier and battery pack; RFID tags map to playlists (RFID tags as playlist keys) and a Phoenix web UI uploads MP3s. Prototype takes about two months to get hardware and soldering right; devices form a cluster and sync content over LAN (clustered boxes sync over gossip). Demoed and working, code is available but sparsely documented.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 11:28Primer on Elixir
- 12:57Home Automation
- 13:34Learning Assessment
- 18:47Rfid Is Not Nfc
- 20:42Nfc Reader
- 21:08Debugging
- 22:07Player Software
- 25:23Demo
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