Boombox Project

WIRED -- One of the most useful devices that is not on campus is a download kiosk. That would be a place where laptop users could log in and snag course notes, MP3s and photos. NYU students Ahmi Wolf and Mark Argo built such a "Bass Station" system.

The pair ripped open an old Lasonic TRC-931 boom box and retrofitted it with a 30 GB hard drive, Linux and Wi-Fi. It can blast music and simultaneously serve files to Wi-Fi laptops. Beecause the hotspot is completely open, listeners can also post tracks to the Bass Station and move them to the top of the playlist.

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Brian Lam -- "The Hub of the Party" in Wired Play, May 2004.
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