The Desk of Ladyada - A nifty SONY turntable, and a few chips we're checkin out
We have been on the lookout for a Sony Flamingo - a very retro-futuristic turntable that can play singles or LPs using a funky minimalist design. It is a gorgeous piece of machinery. Meanwhile, we know folks like using a Raspi to make a 'pihole' ad/malware blocking DNS server but pi's are hard to get, so we looked at turning a Feather ESP32-S2 TFT into an 'esphole' and found a great project to fork off and tweak https://github.com/s60sc/ESP32_AdBlocker We've added mass storage config, and a TFT display to show the IP address and status. We also threw together a quick breakout for a very nice…
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