[Jay Collett] likes listening to Internet radio stations as well as made a decision to develop his own standalone hardware that lets him listen without being at his computer. however he wasn’t starting from square one on this project. [Jay] built on the epic instruction set that [Mighty Ohm] published when he first built his own WiFi radio.
Both of these radios used the same method of getting onto the internet; a hacked router. We kind of like this since it indicates you must be able to use the radio as a bridge for wired Ethernet devices. however we digress. [Jay] departs from the instructions by using an Arduino as well as its IDE to interface an LCD screen with a different line/column orientation than the original, as well as to carry out a different control scheme. This makes the project a bit a lot more approachable if you like not to roll your own electronics.
Take a look at the video after the break. The router takes quite a while to boot, however once it does it seems that the controls are both intuitive as well as responsive.