The Pirate Audio Speaker is a fully assembled mini HAT for any 40-pin Raspberry Pi. It stacks an I2S MAX98357A DAC and amplifier, a 1W 8Ω mono speaker, a 1.3-inch 240x240 IPS display for album art, and four tactile playback buttons on one board. It suits makers building a tiny radio, sound-effect player or handheld console. The built-in speaker is quiet and mono, so it is a project board rather than a serious speaker; push-fit terminals let you drive a larger speaker instead. Owners rate it highly for the tidy all-in-one design and the Pimoroni software installer.
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Owners of this board rate it highly, praising the neat all-in-one build and the easy software setup. Most accept the small mono speaker as a trade-off for the compact size.
Pirate Audio Speaker is a small all-in-one audio board for Raspberry Pi. It combines an I2S DAC and amplifier, an attached mini mono speaker, a color IPS display and four playback control buttons. It is a mini HAT-format board and comes fully assembled.
The built-in 1W speaker is not the loudest, but it suits projects such as a tiny radio, a sound effect player or a small games console. The display and buttons let you control audio playback. Pirate Audio software plays local audio files (MP3, FLAC, etc) or streams from online services.
The Pirate Audio installer sets up the Python library for the LCD and configures I2S audio and SPI. It then installs Mopidy and custom Pirate Audio plugins that show album art and track info and use the buttons for playback control.
