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Pirate Audio: Speaker for Raspberry Pi

Original price was: $35.85.Current price is: $28.68.
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Pump out some minibeats with Pirate Audio Speaker! This diminutive sound system has an I2S DAC, amp, minimonospeaker,high-res display, andplayback control buttons.

Pirate Audio Speaker is perfect for making a Lilliputianradio,sound effect player, or evenas a teeny-weeny games console! The built-in 1W speaker isn’t the loudest but it’s greatfun for lots of projects. The display and playback buttons let you control your audio or sound effects in a jiffy. Use our Pirate Audio software (more info below) to play local audio files (MP3, FLAC, etc) or stream from services like Spotify.

Pirate Audio is a range of all-in-oneaudio boards for Raspberry Pi, with high-quality digital audio, beautifully-crisp IPS displays for album art, tactile buttons for playback control, and our custom Pirate Audio softwareand installer to make setting it all upa breeze.

Features

  • MAX98357A DAC / amplifier chip (datasheet)
  • Mono audio
  • Mini speaker (1W / 8, attached)
  • Push-fit speaker terminals
  • 1.3″ IPS colour LCD (240x240px) (ST7789 driver)
  • Four tactile buttons
  • Mini HAT-format board
  • Fully-assembled
  • Compatible with all 40-pin header Raspberry Pi models
  • Pirate Audio software
  • Dimensions: 65×30.5×9.5mm

Software

Our Pirate Audio software and installer installs the Python libraryfor the LCD, configures the I2S audio and SPI, and then installs Mopidy and our custom Pirate Audio plugins to display album art and track info, and to use the buttons for playback control.

Here’s how to get started:

  1. Set an SD card up with the latest version of Raspbian.
  2. Connect to Wi-Fi or a wired network.
  3. Open a terminal and type the following:

    git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/pirate-audio
    cd pirate-audio/mopidy
    sudo ./install.sh

  4. Reboot your Pi

You can find more detailed instructions here:https://github.com/pimoroni/pirate-audio/tree/master/mopidyor get tonnes more infoin our Getting Started with Pirate Audio tutorial.

Notes

Note that our installer, linked above, does all of the below for you, but if you’re an intrepid hacker then