Streaming lullabies with a Raspberry Pi Zero

Bedtime Music

Article from Issue 203/2017
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When a much-loved stereo bites the dust, a Raspberry Pi Zero fills in.

When my wife was young, she bought what must have been a pretty cool radio, CD, and dual cassette player stereo (Figure 1). The stereo worked well during her youth and her college years, and once we were married, she let the children listen to it.

Figure 1: Raspberry Pi Zero WiFi in front of the old radio.

Eventually, age began to catch up with this venerable system. First the cassette players stopped working, then the CD player would only play intermittently, and finally the tuner just stopped over the holidays.

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