{"id":318,"date":"2007-01-11T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=318"},"modified":"2007-01-11T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T04:42:00","slug":"whither-trashamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Whither TrashAmp?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/sleepykitten.net\/image\/chicagoroadtrip\/pages\/Chicago%20Road%20Trip%202005%20110_jpg.htm\">TrashAmp<\/a>, a project I started while living in Chicago (to give you some idea how long ago that was &#8211; late 2003), was to serve as a subtle testament to a disposable society by building a high-power car audio amp entirely out of trash (specifically, electronics waste scavenged from the curb). Things started out well, but I ran into a long-term shortage of a few specific parts, and had to choose between &#8220;have it now\/soon&#8221; and &#8220;suffer with my crappy stock radio for possibly years, but adhere to the original design goal (all trash)&#8221; &#8211; so I broke down and ordered the last couple parts online.<\/p>\n<p>A little over three years later, the TrashAmp has been built, <a href=\"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=154\">broken<\/a>, and rebuilt with even more new parts (though with some performance issues it would take a substantial redesign to fix).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I have also come to the following realizations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m an engineer, I have money now<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m an engineer, I don&#8217;t have copious freetime (like I did as an unemployed hobbyist \/ trash parts scavenger)<\/li>\n<li>I can get a substantially better unit for ~ $60 off-the-shelf, with all new parts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I think I&#8217;m gonna do it &#8211; give up on TrashAmp and just get a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commercial_off-the-shelf\">COTS<\/a> unit from Ye Olde Internet Gadget Store. <\/p>\n<p>(Anyone disappointed? Speak now or forever hold your peace! :P)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TrashAmp, a project I started while living in Chicago (to give you some idea how long ago that was &#8211; late 2003), was to serve as a subtle testament to a disposable society by building a high-power car audio amp entirely out of trash (specifically, electronics waste scavenged from the curb). Things started out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}