# Overview

In my opinion most radios, especially internet radios, have horrible interfaces. Small buttons, small displays, often touch, often several functions for each button.

So Erik and I set out to design a new, better radio for ourselves. Our main requirements were ease of use and a very physical UI. Something you’d want to touch and play with.

# Platform

The Raspberry Pi is our platform of choice at the moment, so we have some physical restrictions and long boot time.

# Overview

I want to know where my car is. Especially if it gets stolen. Logs would be a bonus. Also, I have several outdated Android phones, which has all necessary hardware.

• I don’t want to use Google (latitude) or other service providers (embedded hardware).
• I don’t want to pay, unless I have to.
• If possible, I’d like it to do more (explained further down).

# Hardware options

## Old android phones

# Overview

This is about improving photOS, mentioned in http://0p.no/2014/02/14/photos1.html.

When building this, price wasn’t a factor. If you want something cheap, you can still use this software with an old laptop or other recycled hardware.

The display from Chalkboard Electronics is beautiful. Good resolution (not extreme resolution, though), good contrast, nice colors. And it supplies power for the RPi. Unfortunately it’s hard to attach stuff to it. There are nothing but smooth surfaces.