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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I’m surprised he didn’t arrange for it to only play the shipping forecast.
Oh! Now that’d be a worthwhile hack…
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[…] ・上の写真のように、40年代のラジオがメディアセンターとして新しい生命を与えられた。 ・これも「音声のみ」のPi-Radioだ。もうひとつはじつに美しい動的に生成される「周波数」ダイヤルセレクター。 ・選択肢をずっと絞り込んで、BBC Radio 4だけを受信するRaspberry Piラジオなんてものも作れる。アメリカ人の私にはよくわからないが、素晴らしいハックだと思う。 ・1932 Piラジオ Mephisto IIは、じつにエレガントだ。下の写真がそれ。 […]