I've had this idea for a long time where I pipe my MP3 collection throughout the house to where ever I need it. I used to have everything running through these crappy RCA wireless speakers when I wanted tunes outside. Sometimes I pulled a speaker into garage. But it was mono, and the frequency response was appaling. I'm no stereophile by any means, but when the static is as loud as the music, it's better to listen to the birds chirping and cars driving by.

For regular use, I've got an Audiotron hooked up to my home stereo. But to get sounds from there to outside, I'd need to run wires. So the idea hit me that if I could get an FM transmitter hooked up to one of the spare computers I've got laying around, I'd be able to have tunes anywhere I care to place a boombox!

Well, my FM transmitter came in the mail today, so I had to stop everything I was doing and get it hooked up.

Some twiddling with mounting Windows shares and a few perl scripts later, I'm glad to annouce that KWEE 106.7FM 107.9FM -- Super Sounds of Silicon Valley is on the air! If you're in the area (within about 150 feet of my office), give us a listen!

So far it's played Mozart, They Might Be Giants, Billy Preston, and Louis Prima. Got another 996 songs to go on this playlist, but it'll refresh at 3 am. You'll never hear the same song twice in the same day on KWEE 106.7FM.

All that's left to do is hook up the Festival text-to-speech software to the bit that reads the song title and artist, and I'm good to go. Until that's up and running, I made some little WAV files of me saying various things, and those little clips get placed between every few songs. I can't wait to hear the voice synth, though. I want Stephen Hawking to be my DJ!

UPDATE: The wonderful strains of the Pipes and Drums of the 48th Highlanders just came on over the radio in the living room. Success!