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Florian Amrhein : Digital vintage radio<\/a><\/p>\n

Florian Amrhein has been messing around with a decades-old Philips tube radio. He’s put a Raspberry Pi and a bunch of other stuff inside the ultra-retro casing and created an IP radio. He’s blogged in-depth about it.\u00a0Read about the project here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florian Amrhein has been messing around with a decades-old Philips tube radio. He’s put a Raspberry Pi and a bunch of other stuff inside the ultra-retro casing and created an IP radio. He’s blogged in-depth about it.\u00a0Read about the project…<\/p>\n

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