{"id":349,"date":"2005-07-11T14:09:39","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T19:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/07\/11\/instant-buzzword-boomcasting\/"},"modified":"2005-07-11T14:09:39","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T19:09:39","slug":"instant-buzzword-boomcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/07\/11\/instant-buzzword-boomcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant buzzword:  Boomcasting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why hasn&#8217;t anyone started using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/product\/Product.asp?Item=N82E16855999404\" title=\"Really needs to have a bigger and LED-based screen, though.\">Griffin Roadtrip<\/a> or similar devices as personal pirate radio transmitters?  They&#8217;d be perfect for coffee shops, student unions, seating areas of city parks&#8211;especially places that don&#8217;t have free wi-fi yet.  All you&#8217;d have to do is set out the big LCD screen so passersby can see it, turn on your mp3 player of choice and be the ultralocal DJ.  I&#8217;m totally going to do this whenever I cave and buy an overpriced hard drive with a stereo jack on it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be better to increase the gain on your tiny transmitter, of course, maybe by adding bigger batteries or using a higher-watt AC adapter, but I&#8217;m not an electrical engineer and I don&#8217;t think I know any.  Also, I think boosting an FM transmitter above a certain level is <i>illegal,<\/i> but then that&#8217;s half the reason to do it anyway.  It&#8217;d also be pretty cool to trump the LCD screen by wearing a t-shirt with your band of choice real big on the front.  88.5:  ME RADIO!<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if printing up such t-shirts would qualify as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/copyfight\/archives\/2005\/06\/28\/thou_shalt_not_ster.php\" title=\"&quot;Thou Shalt Not 'Ster&quot;\">willful inducement<\/a>?  I hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why hasn&#8217;t anyone started using the Griffin Roadtrip or similar devices as personal pirate radio transmitters? They&#8217;d be perfect for coffee shops, student unions, seating areas of city parks&#8211;especially places that don&#8217;t have free wi-fi yet. All you&#8217;d have to do is set out the big LCD screen so passersby can see it, turn on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}