[James Bellafaire] wanted a good looking old radio with a modern sound. Granted, you could hollow the case out and replace it with an iPod. Or you could convert the thing to an Internet radio. But where’s the funinthat? [James] took a different approach . Part woodworking project, part Raspberry Pi project, and part microcontrollerproject, he wound up with a hard drive-based music player in a 1930’s case with knobs that control the playback. Since the Pi isn’t great at reading potentiometers, [James] took at ATTiny85 and used it for that purpose. Coupled with a few hundred old jazz songs from the Internet archive that the Pi can read from a hard drive, and the old radio cranks out period-appropriatetunes again.
This isn’t a new idea, of course, but we love to see new life given to old cases. We’ve seen Internet radios in similar cases . If you’d rather restore them authentic, we’ve hadadvice for that, too.