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title: OHA final presentation - Spotistation
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## Project description

**Name of your project**:

SpotiStation

**Name of your author**:

Nemo Andrea

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**Brief description of your project:**


A Raspberry Pi powered Spotify music player that aims to be easy to use for people with cognitive or physical disabilities (e.g. Alzheimer's or MS), and allow them to enjoy music independently.

To suit this purpose, the music player has an extremely simple interface & operation. A big play/pause button, a physical linear volume slider, and two side buttons that handle convenience functions, but can be omitted.

While accessibility is the primary aim of the design, this does not mean it cannot be used by a broader audience. If you like the idea of seeing the album art of your Spotify songs, and the physicality of hardware buttons, it would not look out of place in a living room.

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**Current status of your project**:

The project has had an initial release, with some 'field testing' to boot. The hardware and software are functional, if a little rough around some of the edges. Certainly areas to improve on, but none that require immediate attention. All the design files and code are available for reproduction - provided you have basic (electronics) tinkering skills.

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**References to your project documentation**:

The SpotiStation documentation and source files are [available on GitHub](https://github.com/NemoAndrea/SpotiStation) with more practical instructions listed on [the github wiki for the project](https://github.com/NemoAndrea/SpotiStation/wiki)

### Share a link to the peer review you did before

My peer review comments can be found [on HackMD](https://hackmd.io/@_9Iuj8oQSTGvm7TxiNPygw/B11Uh6ZZo) for Jose Ocampo's microscope project.

### Share link to the peer review you have received

[Peer review on SpotiStation by Jose Ocampo - thanks :)](https://hackmd.io/@nyiDX_5FSJmjWwMqic4ZQQ/HJ7xlhIZj)

## Share general feedback to the academy
### What did you learn and/or experienced that was useful to progress in your project

I think it was a very good overview of the many aspects of open source hardware. Advice on good practices (licensing, documentation) was very useful. It really gave a lot of 'loose ideas/practices' a more solid foundation to build future projects on 😃.

### Do you find that the estimation of 4 hours per week is fair to be able to perform the exercises?

I think it is maybe a bit much to allocate 4 hours for the project, but it depends a bit on how much reading one does. Maybe 2 hours is more realistic. If you also count time spent working on the project it is short.

### What things can we improve for next rounds

I think it would be beneficial to try or **require** that everyone has a public and shared location for their project progress. That way it promotes mutual discussions and or inspiration. E.g. require a public hackmd/github at the start of the project.