“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!”
“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.”
“It's a lovely looking thing (screen is gorgeous) but the method chosen to connect speakers is unfortunately (for me at least) a disaster. Expanding a tiny hole to take the tinned wires took me about 30 minutes. Pressing down on the plastic meant I was deforming it and with each attempt it became harder and harder to get a usable gap. My strong suggestion is that a future revision uses small grub screws instead. I managed in the end but ended up taping the wires to minimise the risk of pulling them back out again.”
