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Partying with Bluetooth video [aka building a media box for your living room]

Visit Channel9 to see a video of a media box I've been building in my spare time.

Due to popular request, I'll be posting a series of articles on how you can build this box and explore embedded and Bluetooth development.  To keep a watch, you can add my blog to your aggregator by using this RSS feed.

In the meanwhile, here are the stats:

Media Box

  • Powered by Windows CE 5.0 
  • Small form factor x86 box [ICOP Vortex86 aka "ebox"]
  • 60GB Notebook hard drive [for that massive music collection]
  • Acts as a network attached storage (NAS) device [so you can plug in via ethernet and drag+drop your music collection]
  • Stereo Audio Output [you do want to hear the music, right?]
  • Bluetooth USB dongle [so we can control the track being played, etc.]
  • Text to Speech support [so we can announce which track is currently being played]
Windows Mobile Smartphone

Check out the video and let me know what topics you would like to learn more about.  I'll be sure to try and include them in the series of articles.

Published Monday, September 12, 2005 11:39 AM by anild

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# Channel 9 Video - Bluetooth Enabled Media Device.

Monday, September 12, 2005 6:31 PM by Mikehall's Embedded WebLog
Anil Dhawan has been busy building a Windows CE 5.0 based media device, and an application running on...

# Channel 9 Video - Bluetooth Enabled Windows CE Media Device.

Monday, September 12, 2005 6:38 PM by Mikehall's Embedded WebLog
Anil Dhawan has been busy building a Windows CE 5.0 based media device, and an application running on...

# re: Partying with Bluetooth video [aka building a media box for your living room]

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10:29 AM by Matthijs
Nice, I really like these kind of projects :).

How much did you pay for that ebox, you could even do without the harddrive if you have a server at home!

I'm very interested in how to set up bluetooth on both pocketpc and windows-phone, as well as normal xp using managed code. I always wanted to create something to control my normal pc using my pocketpc and also have some statistics on my pocketpc (for example to see a playlist on there or something). But I never really figured out how to use bluetooth using managed code (with Compact Framework v1.0).

# Control your media box via Smart Phone

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:41 AM by Keyvan Nayyeri
Watch this video and find that what did he do? Anil Dhawan designed an application for his Smart...

# re: Partying with Bluetooth video [aka building a media box for your living room]

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:27 PM by Shiv
Nice video .inspired me to blog about my life in embedded system .

The media box , windows mobile phone are expensive for a mini project , would appreciate if you can come up with cheaper BT gadgets to try for fun .

# re: Partying with Bluetooth video [aka building a media box for your living room]

Thursday, September 15, 2005 2:02 AM by Nishant
Cool video! Nice (Blue) shirt!

Would love to have a BT camera phone act as a mouse for the PS2. Dunno if it would be actually "user friendly"! ;-)

# re: Partying with Bluetooth video [aka building a media box for your living room]

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:20 AM by Christian
Does the wince bt stack support A2DP?

# re: Partying with Bluetooth video [aka building a media box for your living room]

Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:13 PM by Simon
hi anil, what about the hardware of the media box, wich specifications does it has?

# re: Partying with Bluetooth video [aka building a media box for your living room]

Monday, September 26, 2005 2:07 AM by anild
The WindowsCE Bluetooth stack does not support A2DP at this time. The stack itself is extensible by design, so you may find ISVs providing A2DP support on top of WindowsCE.

# Control your media box via Smart Phone

Sunday, July 16, 2006 2:35 AM by Keyvan Nayyeri
Watch this video and find that what did he do? Anil Dhawandesigned an application for his Smart Phoneto

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