Raspberry Pi Zero W Mini HiFi System (pHAT BEAT Solution)

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The core of the system are a Pi Zero W and a pHAT BEAT extension board. The pHAT BEAT is packed with many functions, including VU meter led, playback buttons as well as two channel 3W audio output. Material list: Raspberry Pi Zero W (with Raspbian Lite installed) pHAT BEAT 2” speaker driver x 2 Speaker jack x 2 Optional speaker cover x 2 3D printed covers and speaker enclosures A lot of openings are required if we are going to design a case for Pi Zero W and pHAT BEAT. So I decided to make it simple, that is an open design with front and back cover only. The speaker size is around 7x7x7cm , with a 2 inch driver installed. For softwares installation of pHAT BEAT, we can refer to the official website at https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/getting-started-with-phat-beat There are a lot of audio applications available for playing music. Here are some of them. Mopidy Mopidy is a music server for Raspberry Pi as well as other linux machines.We can install so many extensions to enhance its functionality, including local files playback,spotify and internet radio etc https://www.mopidy.com/ Raspotify Raspotify is a very good app which will turn your Pi Zero W to a Spotify Connect Device. You can use your cell phone / computer as remote control for playing music. https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify Raspicast Raspicast is an Android App, which can play local files on Pi as well as casting media files from our phone. It works like Chromecast/Chromecast Audio. Since it uses built-in OMX Player of the Pi to play media files, we don't need to install any extra software to play. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.huber.raspicast Stand-alone Music Players Of course we can also flash the micro SD card with some stand-alone music players such as Volumio, Rune Audio And Moode. (but the led and the buttons of pHAT BEAT will not work.) Music test - https://youtu.be/3_Vk9C5-YZA