{"id":20394,"date":"2020-06-13T14:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T13:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20394"},"modified":"2020-06-13T14:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T13:29:04","slug":"roberts-r757-radio-refurbishment-project-raspberry-pi-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20394","title":{"rendered":"Roberts R757 Radio refurbishment project \u2013 Raspberry Pi inside!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/back-together-again.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20381\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/back-together-again.jpg?resize=560%2C283&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/back-together-again.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/back-together-again.jpg?resize=300%2C152&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/back-together-again.jpg?resize=768%2C388&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/back-together-again.jpg?resize=560%2C283&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/back-together-again.jpg?resize=260%2C131&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/back-together-again.jpg?resize=160%2C81&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a few years, I have been following the work of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martinwmander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin Mander<\/a>, a hobbyist with a passion for refurbishing and repurposing vintage electrical equipment. Recently, Martin repurposed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/1970-Flirt-Pi-Internet-Radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1970s transistor radio to create an internet radio<\/a>. This inspired me to look around to see what I could find to do something similar.<\/p>\n<p>I came across a radio from 1996 on eBay \u2013 an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiomuseum.org\/r\/roberts_r757.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R757<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiomuseum.org\/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=3884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Surrey-based manufacturer Roberts<\/a>, who are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertsradiotechnical.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now based in the West Midlands<\/a>. I refurbished it physically and then took the insides out, replaced them with a Raspberry Pi Zero and a Pimoroni pHAT Beat audio board and wrote some software to turn it into my own internet radio.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=20188\">read the full build details and more about the software on this page<\/a>. Comments welcome! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l-J2OZoWwCE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few years, I have been following the work of\u00a0Martin Mander, a hobbyist with a passion for refurbishing and repurposing vintage electrical equipment. Recently, Martin repurposed a\u00a01970s transistor radio to create an internet radio. This inspired me to look&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20394\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Roberts R757 Radio refurbishment project \u2013 Raspberry Pi inside!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,50,31,391],"tags":[914,913,912],"class_list":["post-20394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-making","category-music","category-personal","tag-audio-project","tag-phat-beat","tag-roberts-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Roberts R757 Radio refurbishment project \u2013 Raspberry Pi inside! - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20394\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Roberts R757 Radio refurbishment project \u2013 Raspberry Pi inside! - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For a few years, I have been following the work of\u00a0Martin Mander, a hobbyist with a passion for refurbishing and repurposing vintage electrical equipment. 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