# Tangarine

A button-based faceplate for the Tangara music player

- **Seller:** [warm cat zone](https://lectronz.com/stores/meow), Olympia, Washington, United States
- **Price:** $40.00 (USD, before shipping and taxes)
- **Availability:** Coming soon
- **Categories:** Audio, Kits
- **Product page:** https://lectronz.com/products/tangarine

## Options

**Button color**

- None (3D print your own buttons)
- White [Add $5.00]
- Purple [Add $5.00]
- Green [Add $5.00]
- Transparent [Add $5.00]

## Links

- [Documentation](https://codeberg.org/bloop/tangarine)

## Images

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## Description

#### What is it?
Tangarine is a faceplate for the [Tangara](https://cooltech.zone/tangara/) music player which replaces its touchwheel with a set of buttons.

This kit includes one fully assembled faceplate board and (optionally) a set of 3D printed buttons, replacing the faceplate board and touchwheel cover as shown in [the Tangara assembly instructions](https://cooltech.zone/tangara/docs/assembly/) (including the display), but reusing everything else. It does not include the rest of the Tangara.

If you choose to print the buttons yourself, you can find the models [in the repository](https://codeberg.org/bloop/tangarine/src/branch/main/fab).

#### Why did you make it?
Tangara's touchwheel is objectively very cool, but it wasn't for me. I very much prefer tactile buttons to touch controls. But there's explicit support for hacking on its hardware, so I took advantage of that and made the exact thing I wanted: a faceplate with an unreasonable number of buttons.

#### What makes it special?
I'm not the first one to make a button faceplate for Tangara (I think [this person](https://forum.cooltech.zone/showthread.php?tid=29) was), but I was the first to make one that doesn't require replacing the stock case, which I actually quite like.

I also worked with the Tangara developers to add support for custom input drivers that you can just drop on your SD card, which I think is a very cool feature. This was included in the 2.0.0 mainline firmware release! You'll need to update to at least that version for this to work.

## Shipping policy

Shipments go out with my regular mail pickups within a week.