Here’s the scenario: You have a thousand MP3 music files sitting on your home computer—which is great when you’re actually sitting at your computer but a lot less useful when you’re in the kitchen or living room. What you need is a dedicated device in another room that can pull songs wirelessly from your PC’s music library and play them through its own speakers. Several off-the-shelf products can handle this task, such as Logitech’s Squeezebox; unfortunately, they start at around $300.
The assembly is not as hard as you think. It uses Windows and Winamp so it must be using a hard drive. This is actually a PC with a different case (withhout cdrom or floppy) The kit is small and straight forward with good instructions. Every thing else is USB or serial port excepting the display and the shifter board with are connected together then to the power supply using hookup wires. For the beginner, the attempt will teachh you a thing or two
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