Make a broken vintage radio both beautiful and functional again.
I got the privilege to inherite a wonderful antique radio from the 1930s, which belonged to my great-grandmother. It wasn’t precisely in a good state, but the exterior could for sure be restored and the interior could be replaced by a newer radio device, to have it playing music again.
It’s a beauty, isn’t it?
The original radio was unfortunately beyond repair, at least for my knowledge and possibilities:
Build an internet radio with an old Raspberry Pi 3 and the Music Player Daemon (mpd).
The ultimative goal is to refurbish a beautiful old radio from the 1930’s.
I intend to tell more about this radio in an upcoming post, but - spoiler alert - I can already tell that the original radio mechanism is probably beyond repair. The most feasible way seems to build a new device inside the old radio and bind the original buttons to the new platform, to control things like switching the power on and adjusting the sound volume.
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