This is the best I managed to get out of it in the past - you can hear the half second delay between pressing a button and hearing the sample.

Also, anyone wants to book me for any singing gigs? 😂

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A little bit more info about the hardware:

I attached a Pimoroni Pico Inky Pack and LiPo Shim to a Raspberry Pi Pico W.

A 400mAh LiPo battery is stuck to the Pico with double-sided tape.

To be actually useful in the field I'd really need to make some kind of case - and even then I'm not sure how well an E-ink display fares in the Spanish sun.

Also, the software is currently pretty ropey, and eventually runs out of memory, crashing the device.

Fun little project though otherwise...

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Definitely!

Atm I'm still at the "playing around with several options and libraries" stage, particularly for the web radio receiver side of things, so it may be a little while before I come up with anything "complete" and bug-free.

If you're super eager you can check out the code in its current state here though: https://gist.github.com/axwax/4939d98b1b761018e374f5e78212d51f

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I'm slowly getting somewhere with that board and now have a @radiofreefedi client with metadata working in #Arduino on the #ESP32.

This is actually grabbing data from the new #NowPlaying API, rather than metadata from the stream itself, so I could include time, artist link and Fedi address as well.

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Tonight I've been playing with using a servo to revive the vintage radio's station dial and turn it into Radio Rhythm Ace's rhythm selector display.

NB: I only programmed in a few rhythms, and they are subject to change.

Also, note to self: Next time EAT before creating the dial - it's Merengue not meringue! 🍙 👨‍🍳

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While there's still a fair bit to be done I thought it's time for a sneak peek at the latest incarnation of the ancient radio:

The Radio Rhythm Ace is a preset drum machine, which so far features 3 rhythm variations, 3 sound sets (Ace Tone Rhythm Ace, Roland Rhythm 77 and Korg Mini Pops) and a mute button for bass drum, snare and cymbal, plus volume and tempo control.

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Slight update to the ancient radio:

I had a go turning it into a standalone @radiofreefedi player, using https://moodeaudio.org/.

While I reverted to a mono speaker, the sound quality is actually much better now, with no more interference, even when I do connect to it via Bluetooth (which is also still possible).

So far I've implemented a volume knob which doubles as a Play/Pause button (it's an encoder), but hopefully I can expand on functionality a bit more in the future.

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