Radio Pi

Hey Ben

Continue with your retro Retro Boom Box theme and build something with an SDR dongle. http://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/

It's be really cool if you could select the frequency bands (AM,FM,SW, or Ham even) using the Raspberry PI's input pins and even tune in the station with with a retro style dial. A truly portable radio that doesn't need WiFi...

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clem57 over 7 years ago +1

Wow a great idea. Have you seen https://learn.adafruit.com/freq-show-raspberry-pi-rtl-sdr-scanner/overview. With a few pieces of hardware you could implement this with the software provided. As to the…

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clem57 over 7 years ago

Wow a great idea. Have you seen https://learn.adafruit.com/freq-show-raspberry-pi-rtl-sdr-scanner/overview. With a few pieces of hardware you could implement this with the software provided. As to the retro tuner, try looking at examples from http://bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/Raspberry%20PI%20Radio.pdf . He has even detailed tutorials for hardware interfacing to the GPIO pins. We would love to see how you do on this project.
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clem57 over 7 years ago

Wow a great idea. Have you seen https://learn.adafruit.com/freq-show-raspberry-pi-rtl-sdr-scanner/overview. With a few pieces of hardware you could implement this with the software provided. As to the retro tuner, try looking at examples from http://bobrathbone.com/raspberrypi/Raspberry%20PI%20Radio.pdf . He has even detailed tutorials for hardware interfacing to the GPIO pins. We would love to see how you do on this project.
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