Bonnaroo Jukebox / Time Capsule

Description

I transformed an old General Electric clock radio such that - rather than dial into an AM/FM radio station, you choose a day/stage/set and listen to the music that you would have heard if you were there.

I leveraged most of the original hardware, but I created a new display, face-plate and labels to A) highlight the new functionality and B) fit the festival vibe!

Step 1: Use the four way switch to choose between Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
Step 2: Use the old radio dial to move to a stage (yes, the stage names are confusing: This, That, The Other, Which, and What)
Step 3: Use the clock set buttons to scroll between set times.
Step 4: Hit the play button, jam out.

Details

Before — This is what the clock looked like, straight out of the eBay box

Fresh faceplate, cut with the Shaper Origin

Stencilled and painted (and broken, just a little)

Visual test with the 16-segment displays

New button labels. Layered black/silver vinyl, cut on my Cricut Maker

Components

1 × General Electric Clock, model 7-4630a

1 × Adafruit Feather M4 Express Microcontroller

5 × MCP23017 IO Expanders (4 for LED segments, 1 for inputs)

1 × DFPlayerMini Music Player with SD card slot

4 × Kingbright PSC08-11SRWA 16 Segment LED displays

Discussions

Ken Yap wrote 07/30/2020 at 23:52

Nice, putting in that alphanumeric display. I have a radio clock whose flip clock died so I replaced that with a digital clock; that was the extent of my modification, not as radical as your mod.

You definitely deserve to go into the restomod list.

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Guy Dupont wrote 08/01/2020 at 02:44

I'm embarrassed to say I don't even know what list you're talking about! Thanks, though.

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Ken Yap wrote 08/01/2020 at 02:49

https://hackaday.io/list/169323-resto-mod-electronics

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Guy Dupont wrote 08/01/2020 at 02:52

Oh rad, thanks!!

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Dan Maloney wrote 07/30/2020 at 17:00

Ah, the 80s - only the finest in simulated walnut veneer.

Pretty sure my girlfriend in high school had this clock radio.

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Guy Dupont wrote 08/01/2020 at 01:55

Ha yeah I think this must have been popular. I sent my mom the video and she sent back a photo of me as a toddler with one of these in the background!

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