The ultimate hackable headphone amp for your desk! Pirate Audio Headphone Amp for Raspberry Pi has an I2S DAC, headphone amplifier, high-res display, and playback control buttons.
Build your own home-brew iPod Nano with Pirate Audio Headphone Amp! It's an all-in-one solution, with gorgeous album art display, track info, and playback controls, for playing your local audio files (MP3, FLAC, etc) or streaming music from Spotify. The DAC and headphone amp give you crisp digital amplified audio through your wired headphones.
Pirate Audio is a range of all-in-one audio boards for Raspberry Pi, with high-quality digital audio, beautifully-crisp IPS displays for album art, tactile buttons for playback control, and our custom Pirate Audio software and installer to make setting it all up a breeze.
Features
Amplified digital audio (24-bit / 192KHz) over I2S
OurPirate Audio software and installerinstalls the Python library for the LCD, configures the I2S audio and SPI, and then installs Mopidy and our custom Pirate Audio plugins to display album art and track info, and to use the buttons for playback control.
Here's how to get started:
Set an SD card up with the latest version of Raspbian.
Connect to Wi-Fi or a wired network.
Open a terminal and type the following:
git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/pirate-audio cd pirate-audio/mopidy sudo ./install.sh
Note that our installer, linked above, does all of the below for you, but if you're an intrepid hacker then you might need to know this stuff!
The low-gain mode is recommended for most use-cases.
The DAC can be configured by addingdtoverlay=hifiberry-dacto the/boot/config.txtfile.
There is a DAC enable pin—BCM 25— that must be driven high to enable the DAC. You can do this by addinggpio=25=op,dhto the/boot/config.txtfile.
The buttons are active low, and connected to pins BCM 5, 6, 16, and 20
The display uses SPI, and you'll need to enable SPI through the Raspberry Pi configuration menu.
If you want to use these boards with a Pibow Coupé case (either for the Zero / Zero W or Pi 4), then you'll need to use abooster headerto raise it up a little.
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Chris B
Chalgrove, United Kingdom
Pirate Audio: Headphone Amp for Raspberry Pi [Discontinued]
This is good hat. It could do with a bit more documentation for myself as a relative beginner. I haven't managed to find the TFT screen type. I did find the info for the DAC.
Pirate Audio: Headphone Amp for Raspberry Pi [Discontinued]
Perfect for a satellite audio system running off a main Volumio installation - works perfectly and sounds great, despite it's diminutive size.
Coupled with a Pi 0 W, it's portable enough to run pretty much anywhere.
Easy to setup and tinker with too ..
Fast delivery and extremely helpful people at the Pi Hut to ensure everything goes smoothly!