Bluetooth Speaker
This weekend is the KVMR Celtic Music Festival at the Fairgrounds, and while I am not attending, I do plan on listening to the event live on KVMR. In order to do this, I purchased a little retro style radio from the ReStore. Unfortunately, the radio doesn't do a very good job of picking up the KVMR radio signal. Fortunately, it is possible to stream the KVMR broadcast at https://www.kvmr.org/player.
In order to listen to KVMR on the radio, gut the radio and convert to bluetooth sounds like a nice viable option. One might call it a perfect project for a rainy morn. As niftly little bluetooth kits are readily available for purchase online, and it happened to be a rainy morn… well, guess what happened. :)
That radio can't play KVMR
TAKE IT APART!!! This is one of my favorite parts of any project. :)
Gutted husk of a radio
Everthing was removed, even the cloth covering the grill.
New grill cover
A piece of red velvety cloth was cut to fit inside of the entire face of radio. For some reason, there is a bit of dog hair on the cloth.
Assembled!
- the cloth was stapled and hot glued to the inside of the radio face
- a pair of salvaged speakers were mounted behind the radio grill
- the USB cable, providing power to the bluetooth hardware, was hot glued to the radio backing
- the radio backing was then screwed back in place
Finished and waiting for use...
Streaming KVMR
Some time ago, there was a need to have quick access to some public radio station. That need producted https://radio.jezra.net.
Pair an old phone to the speaker, open radio.jezra.net in a browser, select KVMR, … and listen :)
Cheers,
jezra