Listening to BBC Radio 4 With Your Raspberry Pi

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Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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November 29th, 2013 6

The front of the radio.

The insides of the radio with the Raspberry Pi.

The back of the radio, that’s the Ethernet cable to the right.

Earlier in the year Andrew Back picked up a vintage 1950’s extension speaker from a flea market. He thought it was ideal to convert into a Raspberry Pi radio, one that receives only BBC Radio 4. Because, like many here in the Britain, he shares the quite reasonable view that…

As far as I’m concerned the only thing worth listening to on the wireless is Radio 4.

…and as a fellow Brit, I couldn’t agree with him more.

Booting the Raspberry Pi, and the radio.

While turning your Raspberry Pi into a streaming audio player seems like a popular thing to do, and even vintage radios aren’t unheard of, I particularly appreciate this one’s lack of turning dial.

Via DesignSpark

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Listening to BBC Radio 4 With Your Raspberry Pi

By Alasdair Allan