Rube Goldberg was here

I have started to explore my interest in electronics and have been reading and watching with eager eyes all of the possibilities that exist with modern electronic DIY. It’s pretty incredible. To this end I have come up with two projects that I think will be a lot of fun, and useful to me. The first is a home audio distribution system, the second is a home video distribution system.

Here are the specs for the Audio distribution system:

I have speaker wire that I have run throughout my house, I even have speakers in my kitchen ceiling. I have yet to wire any of this stuff together though. I want to hookup the kitchen speakers, and put in some patio speakers, and connect them to some sort of audio system. It has to be cheap (because I can’t justify the $1000+ expense of an audio system for this purpose) and it has be controllable from a device, such as my iPhone or my wife’s iTouch.

Here is my initial idea:

  • Setup a laptop running pandora
  • Buy/Build an audio amplifier/ controller that can support multiple rooms
  • Build some electronics that can control the amplifier
  • Interface the electronics to the laptop
  • Build a web interface to the computer that will allow me to change stations on pandora, and control the audio and room settings
  • figure out how to control pandora via said web interface
  • figure out how to control the amplifier through the web interface

I’m sure I’m missing something, but I’ll detail my progress as I go. The video distribution is something I will tackle later, but a lot of the same requirements hold through.   Seems fun, and really challenging considering I have never ever even soldered a piece of electronics in my life.  Yay!

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