<![CDATA[i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara]]>i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/91761426-aae1-47ee-b26c-b10c555de1a9/i-think-it-s-quite-cool-how-many-people-built-their-own-tangaraRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 06:12:25 GMTWed, 22 Apr 2026 08:39:28 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:19:31 GMT]]>@jacqueline Oh my god. 🫠

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://piaille.fr/users/colin_mcmillen/statuses/116447613528856721https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://piaille.fr/users/colin_mcmillen/statuses/116447613528856721Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:19:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:18:54 GMT]]>@colin_mcmillen we built and shipped one thousand three hundred devices

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/jacqueline/statuses/116447611096798215https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/jacqueline/statuses/116447611096798215Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:18:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:18:03 GMT]]>@jacqueline BTW I recently made a very small Kickstarter which ended up with me having to assemble and ship 41 of my devices, and I thought of you folks a number of times.

That was hundreds for you if I'm not mistaken. That must have been EXHAUSTING.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://piaille.fr/users/colin_mcmillen/statuses/116447607746394181https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://piaille.fr/users/colin_mcmillen/statuses/116447607746394181Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:18:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:09:47 GMT]]>@jacqueline My only gripe is that these days I don't have what it takes to build it myself and I missed the campaign to buy one premade 😢

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/gorfoogaming/statuses/116447575231619475https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/gorfoogaming/statuses/116447575231619475Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:09:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:05:43 GMT]]>@swetland @jacqueline Yeah, as mainstream devices get more locked-down and disposable by the year it's a huge relief and source of optimism for the future that open hardware designs are also becoming dramatically more real and capable; blossoming with DIY-fed gusto and variety even as corporate commercial offerings lose any remaining heterogeneity or flexibility]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediverse.keithzg.ca/objects/ade4756e-2c3c-437d-9c72-fbdd873e92e5https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediverse.keithzg.ca/objects/ade4756e-2c3c-437d-9c72-fbdd873e92e5Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:05:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:47:58 GMT]]>@jacqueline TBH with how thick tangara 1 is I've been wondering if it wouldn't be feasible to just toss in a single 18650 somehow

never even tried to sketch what that would look like or where it would go, it would necessitate some change to the shape, or maybe designing around it [2 smaller PCBs instead of one large one, stacked, one taking space where the battery is now? Could maybe figure out a way to make it work but it has to be an explicit goal or there's no point]

2xAAA is probably easier and good enough tbh

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://merveilles.town/users/pixx/statuses/116447489462765226https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://merveilles.town/users/pixx/statuses/116447489462765226Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:47:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:46:38 GMT]]>@jacqueline

> aren't conducive

one of my biggest uses for a mp3 player is running / biking (open-ear headphones on low volume! I'm very careful!) / going to the gym

and tangara just really can't handle that

(biking, ish. Bluetooth from backpack if it's well secured in there, is basically fine. gym, with overhead headphones and 3.5mm jack, works depending on what I'm doing / if I have somewhere secure [not in a pocket] to put it)

it just can't handle constant jostling

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://merveilles.town/users/pixx/statuses/116447484229283006https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://merveilles.town/users/pixx/statuses/116447484229283006Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:46:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:45:34 GMT]]>@pixx yeah, i wanna use like a bl-5c or something for tangara 2 (maybe two). something a lil more standard so we can have a more robust way of securing.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/jacqueline/statuses/116447480014029269https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/jacqueline/statuses/116447480014029269Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:45:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:44:33 GMT]]>@jacqueline Individuals and small teams building (and showing others how to build) personal electronics devices that would have involved whole companies and 10s of millions of dollars in funding a decade or two ago is something that gives me hope for the future.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/swetland/statuses/116447476022615824https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/swetland/statuses/116447476022615824Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:44:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:43:35 GMT]]>@jacqueline Having used it for a long time now, I definitely have criticisms, most of which i haven't expressed, and most of which is a "wishlist for tangara2 / modding plan", not "this is a bad device" 🙂

Much of it is also just my personal engineering tradeoffs being different from yours! I'm not a huge fan of the battery type; I want to use it in places that just aren't conducive to the plastics that were chosen for e.g. the battery protector; etc

I'm way more interested in taking the things it gets right and improving on it than anything else :3

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://merveilles.town/users/pixx/statuses/116447472213498543https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://merveilles.town/users/pixx/statuses/116447472213498543Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:43:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i think it's quite cool how many people built their own tangara on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:40:54 GMT]]>people have made many criticisms of the device. lots has been fair, some not so fair. but at the end of the day, people were able to build it on their own and end up with a neat little mp3 player. i think that whips ass.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/jacqueline/statuses/116447461653662858https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/jacqueline/statuses/116447461653662858Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:40:54 GMT