September 02, 2002

zRadio on the iPAQ

Click for a larger picture of zRadio running on an iPAQI'll admit it - Doc piqued my interest when he mentioned the zRadio application for the new Sharp Zaurus. Well, I've been doing a bunch of work with embedded systems lately, and I saw something interesting - A new version of the Familiar distribution for the ARM processor has come out, and this one supports OPIE, a neat embedded environment that has some nice tools already available. There are lots of applications already running on it. One of the nice aspects of this environment is that you can run all the prebuilt Zaurus applications! So, I downloaded zRadio and it is now happily streaming a number of stramcast/icecast stations, including WUNC, the public radio station in Chapel Hill, NC.