{"id":1502,"date":"2010-12-27T12:02:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2020-04-04T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T17:37:17","slug":"vacation-hacking-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2010\/12\/27\/vacation-hacking-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Hacking, Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So work<\/a> is closed this week. There may be some INBOX cleaning, here and there, but by and large this week is mine to refresh and recharge. In usual form, I\u2019ve set myself a rather savage schedule of projects that have been sitting around for a while. Based on today\u2019s efforts, I\u2019m one for one \u2013 keeping pace with the unyielding demands of time. We\u2019ll see how the snow helps out tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father in law sent me a car stereo<\/a>. I\u2019ve been wanting to play driving music directly from the iphone for a while now. Mostly, this is pride: burning 14 to 20 songs onto plastic, shackled to the whim of the licensing gods, does not suit. The bit and harness \u2013 they chafe. I was only briefly put off by the fact that Sony decided to name it \u201cXPLOD\u201d. As in \u201ckaboom.\u201d Once I got over that \u2013 I went ahead with the noble business of mounting it in my car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had never changed any component in my car before. I realize that as an American man in his mid thirty\u2019s, this probably means that I\u2019m some sort of communist. Anyway, I found many<\/a> wonderful<\/a> resources<\/a> online. This stuff is totally fun. It\u2019s a series of little puzzles that are totally solvable \u2013 provided that you don\u2019t break the little plastic tabs or anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It turns out that in addition to the stereo itself, you need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* A \u201cdash kit\u201d to mount the thing in your dashboard. Stereos are a standard size, but dashboards are not. The size standard is \u201cDIN,\u201d where the \u201cD\u201d stands for \u201cDeutsches\u201d. There, now you know.
* A \u201cwiring harness\u201d to adapt the Sony \u201cstandard\u201d plug to my 1998 \u2013 2002 \u201cstandard\u201d plugs. Apparently the colors<\/strong> of the wires are standard \u2013 but the shapes of the plastic plugs are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I figured all that out, and had a contented evening soldering some wire splices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were a lot of fun little puzzles along the way to getting it working. The solution to the final puzzle (back and forth to the car, in the snow), was to wire the powered-antenna line (blue, FWIW) directly to 12V power. Apparently, little-known fact here, that line also TURNS ON THE SPEAKERS. I had been assuming that it meant \u201cpower for the mechanical antenna.\u201d Like, how it\u2019s labelled on the wire and in the book. I have no powered antenna, so I had just connected it to the blue wire on the stereo plug \u2026 further assuming that the stereo would do the right thing. No dice. That caused the system to work when using the radio \u2013 but to be silent (though superficially functional) for any other mode. The stereo was trying to deploy the antenna only when the tuner was on \u2013 and otherwise playing without powering the speakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the record, it\u2019s not the \u201cpowered antenna\u201d line. That\u2019s the \u201cmake the whole damn system work,\u201d line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rasafracka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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