The latter then slots onto more bolts at the rear of the radio, with the Zero W mounted on top. Unless you opt to buy a couple of Pimoroni’s ingenious hammer headers separately, you will need to break out the soldering iron to attach the supplied standard male and female headers to the Pi Zero W and pHAT BEAT. We’re not sure why the wire is much longer than required, though while you could always cut it to size, we just wound it round the bolts at the rear of the radio. Fortunately, the speaker comes with a length of dual wire already connected, so there’s no need to solder it. The supplied 5W speaker simply slots onto four bolts holding the translucent front acrylic layer in place. The acrylic pieces are all laser cut, including a neat speaker grille, so there are no nasty rough edges.
As long as you follow the guide carefully to get the orientation right, everything slots together neatly. The body of the radio is fairly easy to assemble – from acrylic pieces, legs, retainers, nuts and bolts – using the illustrated step-by-step online guide. Also available separately, the latter is a neat bit of kit that crams dual I2S DAC/amplifiers onto a Pi Zero-sized board, and can pump out 3W per channel. The key electronic items featured in the Pirate Radio kit are a Pi Zero W, with built-in wireless LAN and Bluetooth, and one of Pimoroni’s new pHAT BEATs. As with the other three kits, the packaging is top-notch and the hinged plastic case can be reused to store other components after the build. One of the most expensive of the new Raspberry Pi Zero W project kits from Pimoroni, the Pirate Radio comprises a case full of quality components – everything you need to build your own internet radio.
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