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Babbelnet 4 July 2024 pCP 9.0.0 Projects

Here is my new project.

It was born purely as a hobby and to test my skill to do something like this.

I built the case with laser-cut clear acrylic glass to allow a view of all the wonderful technology inside. The player contains a RPi Zero WH, Hifiberry Zero, 2.2 inch none-touchable display and two rotary encoders.

I had struggled a bit with the rotary encoders to find the right GPIOs and parameters in the script.

I also had struggled with the Hifiberry Zero. The description mentions only 4 GPIOs are needed to work, but you need a total of 9!

The jacks are easily accessible on the back through cutouts. The SD card can also be removed from the side.

Unfortunately, I messed up the front panel a bit when assembling it and still have to replace it.

But I’ll do that with the next project.

Hardware

  • Raspberry Pi Zero WH
  • Hifiberry Zero
  • 2.2 inch none-touchable display
  • two rotary encoders

The Result

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The POC with a RPi 3B+. Later I switched to a RPi Zero to save more space.

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The lasercut acrylics and the other parts that were needed.

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Demonstration video

For those who want to rebuild this player or only parts of it, you can request the *.dxf Autocad-Files for cutting the acrylics or the GPIO script I used for the rotary encoders.

Be curious about my next project, which is already in my head.

Rotary encoder setup

These extensions were necessary on pCP for Rotary encoders:

  • nano.tcz
  • pcp-sbpd.tcz
  • pigpio.tcz

…and the related script:


#!/bin/sh

# start pigpiod daemon

pigpiod -t 0 -f -l -s 10

# give the daemon a moment to start up before issuing the sbpd command

sleep 2

# load uinput module, then set the permission to group writable, so you don't need to run sbpd with root permissions

sudo modprobe uinput

sudo chmod g+w /dev/uinput

# issue the sbpd command

# This command will cause encoder to move selection up or down; Press=Enter; long press=escape

sbpd e,23,24,KEY:KEY_UP-KEY_DOWN,4 e,5,6,KEY:KEY_EQUAL-KEY_MINUS,4 b,12,KEY:KEY_ENTER,2,0,KEY:KEY_ESC,250 b,17,PLAY,2,0,POWR,250​

The command to use the script on pCP [Tweaks] Page:

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The used GPIO’s on the RPi:

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More information

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