When I was in high school, I was looking around a charity shop and I noticed a basket containing a few circuit boards with familiar looking ports. One of them had a website printed on it. I was curious and it cost basically nothing, so I bought it and looked it up when I got home.
Turns out it was for a build-your-own MP3 player kit. It had slots for old SDR RAM, an IDE hard drive, and power connections for an ATX PSU. Turns out, I had the parts I needed from some old pcs I had gotten from my uncle. I inserted the RAM, copied some MP3s onto the IDE hard drive, put it all in a shoebox, figured out how to short a connector on the PSU to start it - and it worked!
It wasn't pretty, and the sound was noisy as heck, but it was a fun adventure. :)
Turns out it was for a build-your-own MP3 player kit. It had slots for old SDR RAM, an IDE hard drive, and power connections for an ATX PSU. Turns out, I had the parts I needed from some old pcs I had gotten from my uncle. I inserted the RAM, copied some MP3s onto the IDE hard drive, put it all in a shoebox, figured out how to short a connector on the PSU to start it - and it worked!
It wasn't pretty, and the sound was noisy as heck, but it was a fun adventure. :)