This video is just too cool! Almost didn't click on it, I figured he was just doing some bluetooth thing or something, but I clicked on it and am glad I did. Such a brilliantly elegant and inexpensive hack to emulate a real radio.. But not just that, the video is both entertaining and interesting. I thought this was great!
Cool video. It's what my station slogan making AM radio great again is about. Or just making radio great again if on FM.
It's great when your oldies station or OTR's play through a radio from those times.
To pick up radios from the 40s and 50s in working shape and good condition costs a fortune.
Even if I had the knowledge to do this I couldn't take years to do it.
@mark you said "Even if I had the knowledge to do this I couldn't take years to do it."
I could even do this, A six year old could do it. It's two cheap parts.
He wanted to tune in a station that's 100% customized to his personal taste. So he goes and buys a part 15 xmtr and --- No, you would think so, -- but no, that's not what he did at all.... He went to Amazon and bought a mp3 player module board ($6.50), and a volume controlled amplifier board ($10) -, connected them together as a single unit, connected that to a speaker, everything appropriately positioned in the radio.
He bought this MP3 Board: HiLetgo TF Card U Disk Play MP3 Decoder Player Module with Audio Amplifier Micro USB 5V Power Supply $6.50
And this amplifier board: DROK 5W+5W Mini Audio Amplifier Board PAM8406 DC 5V Digital Stereo Power Amp 2.0 Dual Channel Class D Amplify Module for Speaker Sound System DIY
-( both on Amazon)
Some might day so what? it's an mp3 player. But makes this so cool, (and might also sound a little crazy and inefficient), is in reality it never ever stops playing (unless you unplug it) not even when you turn the radio off - because there really is no on/off, all that knob really does is control the volume. The playlist plays over and over again to infinity.. So you never know what might be playing when you go to turn that radio "on", nor do you have any control over the playlist.
I think it's cool, silly, but ingenious. These could make great gifts, a very unique and personalized one. The trickiest part is finding attractive radio housing to put it in. Extremely simple, cheap, and unique.
In this video he presents step-by-step how you can do it yourself. Really, very simple, it takes no technical know-how or talent to do it yourself, although I still think the first video is the more entertaining to watch