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Some things you do for the money. Like keeping a job. Most people that I know have a very strong likeness for eating and being warm.

Other things you do for the experience. Like bungee jumping into the Grand Canyon. You will pay good money to put yourself at risk just so that you can say you’ve done it.

Well, the second category is where make your own MP3 player firmly sits. When you can but a cheap MP3 player these days for under $50, many people would say that you are crazy to dish out $115 for a pile of parts that you still need to put together and get working.

The kit is and open source kit from Make Magazine called the Daisy. Of course, if you do not want to pay for the kit and you can source the parts by yourself, you can build everything from information at the designer’s website.

I think that this would be a great learning experience, especially when my soldering skills are pretty limited at this point. I also like the fact that you can download the code that runs the MP3 player and then modify it to work the way you want it to work. The ability to fine tune something to my specifications has always been a big plus.

I don’t know if I will be doing anything with this in the near future but I will be definitely keeping it in the back of my mind.

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