Developer Fatih Ak has turned a Pimoroni Presto right into a slick desktop management system for music streaming — full with full-color cowl artwork and a customized person interface developed in MicroPython.
“The primary element of this mission is the brand new Pimoroni Presto,” Ak explains of the gadget, “which has a four-inch touchscreen show with a 480×480 decision. It is powered by the brand new Raspberry Pi RP2350 chip and has a modern black aluminum stand. The Presto comes totally assembled, so there is not any soldering required.”
Designed with desktop human-machine interplay in thoughts, the Pimoroni Presto is the perfect candidate for conversion right into a media management system — which is strictly what Ak has performed, specializing in the favored Spotify streaming platform. A customized MicroPython firmware connects to Spotify’s net utility programming interface (API) and pulls in particulars concerning the currently-playing track, together with album artwork, for real-time show on the Presto’s touchscreen.
Naturally, a touchscreen lends itself to manage — so the communication goes each methods, with a customized person interface supplied playback controls for observe skip, play and pause, shuffle, and repeat.
“There have been just a few small challenges I bumped into throughout improvement,” Ak admits. “As a result of the gadget is making frequent API calls, fast faucets on the display can generally be missed. One other concern is that the graphics library does not assist non-ASCII characters and textual content so I am stripping these out of the observe and artist names for now — which is not ultimate, particularly for worldwide songs and artists.”
The mission is detailed within the video embedded above and on Ak’s YouTube channel, with supply code out there on GitHub underneath an unspecified open supply license.
