Thursday, June 18, 2026

Foniebox

We recently went to Africa (bucket list trip). And in trying to pack light, we didn't want to take our son's toniebox. Since he uses this every night to fall asleep, I wanted an alternative solution.

I created the "foniebox" lol... Using my local AI model (tuned on qwen3.6) I hacked together a quick android app that reads a folder for mp3 files, the shuffles them, and plays them for a set duration, with a configurable "fade out" time to give him time to fall asleep.



Here is the code: https://github.com/spiffomatic64/foniebox


It worked great! We had no issues with sleep the entire 2 weeks in Africa. Which I feel is pretty impressive for an 8 year old.

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