The link has some but not an excessive amount of advertising--looked interesting to me.More details would be nice without forcing us to visit the link you posted. What does the Pico do? What is it replacing?
Hi Guys. Sorry for any confusion, I was hoping a nice picture along with the title would be enough of a hint to a technical audience rather than re-posting chunks of my blog post.
For those that do not want to click the link it is just a personal project to re-purpose an old broken pioneer surround-sound amplifier, by removing the faulty motherboard and prorietry DSP stuff and replacing it with a new motherboard containing a PICO2 then writing some software to control the original front panel and VFD display and use the pico to stream MP3s from a 32GB SD card. The blog post describes the journey, the hardware and the strange choice of software I eventually used to program the pico.
If you did click the link then it takes you directly to my personal website/blog, the navigation sidebar on this site has a links to other project/blog pages on my site, two of which are books and may look like adverts but they are not. - though please do read them, awesome novels if I say so myself!
There is no external advertising on my site though, and you cannot hire me anymore as I'm retiring at the end of the month
I was unsure whether to post this in the media player section of the forum, but that seemed to be mainly for the Raspberry Pi's not the microcontrollers. Moderators feel free to move it if it is more appropriate there.
Statistics: Posted by boznz — Fri Jan 16, 2026 1:29 am