Ryan McDonough

Founder, Sometime Artist

CFO and co-founder @Accompany, acquired by @Cisco. Turnaround CFO @Ning, sold to Glam Media. Former seed VC. McKinsey trained. @Wharton School and @Haas School of Business.

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Brick-Spin Record Player

A LEGO-Clad, Raspberry Pi–Powered Turntable: Raspberry Pi 4B, Waveshare 5″ round touchscreen, and sliced MangoKit SR10 radio meet a wood-themed LEGO chassis for the ultimate DIY Internet-radio turntable.
LEGO + Spotify Record Player

Brick-Spin Record Player: A LEGO-Clad, Raspberry Pi–Powered Turntable
Raspberry Pi 4B, Waveshare 5″ round touchscreen, and sliced MangoKit SR10 Internet radio meet a wood-themed LEGO chassis for the ultimate DIY Internet-radio turntable.

Brick-Spin Record Player | LEGO Retro Turntable

🎶 Say hello to the Brick-Spin Record Player, a bite-sized turntable that marries 1970s vibe with 2025 tech. I paired a Raspberry Pi 4B 8 GB with a Waveshare 5″ round touchscreen (our faux “vinyl”) and surgically split a MangoKit SR10 Internet radio so the mono speaker & manual controls sit symmetrically on both sides. The enclosure? Pure LEGO, right down to a faux-wood stripe and a transparent lid. It boots straight into an Internet-radio playlist but happily jumps to Spotify or local FLACs. 

 

Skipping tracks randomly selects a new “Record” to display while the controls show the album thumbnail.

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Want to go a different direction and print a fully retro record player? Visit Concept Bytes https://www.patreon.com/posts/spotify-record-127390794, which was my original inspiration for this project. Supporting them as a patron was a huge boost since it gave me a Python-code foundation to begin modifying for this project.