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Pirate Audio: 3W Stereo Amp for Raspberry Pi Reviews

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Henrik Siegumfeldt
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This is great. I bought the amp amp shim some month ago, and really liked it, but the press fit was a bit fiddly. This amp with just attaches firmly on the gpio header and plays perfectly out of the box. Sound quality is above expectations, so highly recommended.
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Posted 3 years ago
Now working with a Christmas tree in public library playing carols to near by persons.
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Posted 4 years ago
Michael Clarkson
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This is a cool little everything-on-it HAT for simple, no-solder audio projects. Perfect for a mini radio - 3W per channel is more than enough most of the time. Personally, I would have preferred a couple more buttons (especially on GPIO3 for shutdown/wake-up) but I saw on a forum somewhere that this was to keep costs down and you could always add an OnOff shim. I'll just glue on an extra button, and add one to all my own PCBs. Anyway, apart from my wee rant, please don't hesitate - it's a super amp+button+display HAT to get your projects going!
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Posted 4 years ago
welll, this is one cute piece of hardware. Nice display, haven't tested speaker output yet.
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Posted 4 years ago
Koizumi Fumihito
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This allowed me to configure a very compact audio player, which is now working well. Thank you very much.
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Posted 4 years ago
DAVID HEGGIE
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It's good, but not perfect. The core functionality of the board is fantastic - the screen's lovely and the addition of a good sounding DAC and some useful buttons have made it into a great little internet radio along with a Pi Zero. I had a few issues with the mopidy install, instead going for something a little more homebrew, and I really didn't get on with the push-fit speaker connectors. They're really fiddly and really not that robust (two have broken already). Would be much better with screw connectors.
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Posted 4 years ago
Jörg Kassing
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Wonderful Sound and great Display. I've made my own Media-Player with python. Control over Buttons, Web-Interface (YMPD) and lirc.
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Posted 4 years ago
Bernard PARDO
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Posted 4 years ago