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I just finished the first prototype of a customized MP3 player. More precisely, it is an MP3 player (X-air by Seagrand) that I bought at Akihabara for 400yens (as you can see, it was a very cheap price) inserted inside a toy called “musical drum” that I bought at daiso for 300yens.

The original “musical drum”:

The original X-air MP3 player:

I removed the case of the X-air and replaced its original tiny buttons by the big colorful buttons of the musical drum. The LCD screen has been inserted where the speaker was and one of the button (the yellow one) has been replaced by a switch that control the volume. On the side, a headphone jack for the output. On the back, a single 1.5V LR6 / AA type battery powers the player.
The X-air inside the “musical drum”:

The original “musical drum” and the headphone output of the musical drum MP3 player:

It was the first so I made some mistakes (like wrongly connecting some wires and burning some components relative to the USB connection…) but as I bought a lot of these MP3 players, so the next ones will be better.
Some explanations of the controls:

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