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Hard Disk Drive or HDD PLAYER

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Hi all I am really excited to find a place to learn more about electronics. While learning and watching Ben Heck I thought of what I think would be a very kewl and useful thing to have. See my son is Autistic and destroys DVDs and I am guessing other people have problems with either young children or special needs. So I would buy a used portable DVD player remove the dvd player part and build an interface to a hard disk drive. That way you could carry all the kids videos or your movies on the Hard disk drive and wouldn't have to carry his whole collection of DVD's on the trip.

 

It would also so be neat if the same unit could some how hook to a smart TV and it would play the video on the big TV as well.

 

I am considering using a Banana Pi maybe for my build it already has support for hard drive.

 

Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated Thanks a lot

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  • Actually this is very possible to build or buy. Take a look at the Pcdruino3 because it has a SATA interface already available. Add some case building and a 2.5 inch drive for low power weight and I think you have what you need. I would pick XBMC software which is built into the EEPROM already to play movies or music. As a side benefit, wireless is built in and can be used to get the material off another pc instead of the hard drive. Hope this helps...

  • in reply to clem57

    Thanks for the suggestion I will see if I can figure this out. By chance do you know if this board can utilizes the portable dvd players controls???? I am considering trying to wire in a teensey3.0 to use the for the controls (Play, Stop, Menu, Select) I appreciate the suggestion.

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