{"id":890112,"date":"2026-10-21T23:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890112\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:50:15","slug":"building-a-simple-internet-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890112\/","title":{"rendered":"Building A Simple Internet Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcast radio isn\u2019t as popular as it once was, its popularity suffering in turn due to technologies like MP3 players and music streaming services. If you don\u2019t fancy either of those, you might like to listen to some internet radio stations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/DIY-Cute-Mini-Internet-Radio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">using a rig like the one [CodersCafeTech] built.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a simple desktop radio set, but instead of tuning in to AM or FM broadcast bands, it has an antenna for 2.4 GHz instead. That\u2019s because inside this radio is an ESP32-S3 development board, which is equipped with onboard WiFi hardware that lets it connect to the internet. It\u2019s hooked up to a 1.3-inch OLED display over I2C, which acts as a user interface in concert with a rotary encoder. Sound is handled with a MAX98357 I2S audio amplifier, hooked up to a small 3 W speaker. Once programmed appropriately, all the unit needs is a WiFi SSID and password, and the URL for the internet radio station you\u2019d like to listen to.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve featured <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2026\/10\/02\/is-this-the-smallest-internet-radio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a few internet radio builds over the years<\/a>, as well as a rather fun build that saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/12\/21\/giving-an-old-mac-spotify\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macintosh SE\/30 hooked up to Spotify.<\/a> If you\u2019re tinkering with something along those lines, don\u2019t hesitate to let us know <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/submit-a-tip\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on the tipsline!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadcast radio isn\u2019t as popular as it once was, its popularity suffering in turn due to technologies like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":["post-890112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}