Subsystems and Components on EdS

Now Playing

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Now Playing

Knowing what is playing is the one thing every other subsystem needs, so it is a subsystem of its own and the others are built on it. It hears or asks each source of music, decides which one is current, completes what it was told, and publishes one answer for everyone else.

LP Light Show

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

LP Light Show

The first subsystem, and EdS’s first idea of many: a record’s cover becomes the light on its stand. Prop the jacket on the LP stand and it is illuminated in its own colors, set slowly moving, for as long as the record plays. It is the first of what may be several light shows, which is why it is named for the LP.

Remote Display

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Remote Display

A small touch screen that shows the cover of whatever is playing, and can change it (ADR-0020). It is a stand-alone display and remote: for simple things, play or pause, back and next, it is handier than the phone app, and it is a way to enjoy the cover art in another room.

Voice Request

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Voice Request

An album played because someone asked for it out loud: “play Aerosmith’s first album”, and it plays (ADR-0042). It is in development: one device listens so far, and it sits wherever it is being worked on. Ears are meant to be on several devices throughout the house, or on one carried from room to room.