You, too, can recreate the radio player from GTA 5 for your own car with a Raspberry Pi
You, too, can recreate the radio player from GTA 5 for your own car with a Raspberry Pi
Summary: One of my favorite parts about GTA 5 is the radio stations. You spend a lot of time in a vehicle, so it makes sense that Rockstar put a ton of time and effort into crafting some really memorable stations with some equally banging tunes.
One of my favorite parts about GTA 5 is the radio stations. You spend a lot of time in a vehicle, so it makes sense that Rockstar put a ton of time and effort into crafting some really memorable stations with some equally banging tunes.
But what if you wanted to recreate the radio stations in your own car? And what if you wanted to go one step further than simply using a Spotify playlist designed to mimic the game's own stations? You, my friend, sound like you need to check out this cool DIY adapter.
This story begins just under a week ago on Reddit, when user u/Key_Historian_2454 posted their newest project to the GTA subreddit. It's a little car adapter that beams GTA radio songs to the car radio, and you can check it out in the video below?
Pretty sweet, isn't it? It managed to accrue over 9,000 upvotes on the GTA sub, and people were eager to know how to create it. Unfortunately, the original poster didn't have any details on hand at the time, but we were hopeful they would post something later.
Fast forward to today, and u/Key_Historian_2454 made a post on the 3D printing subreddit announcing their new Instructables page for the project . They call it their "instructions" (with the word being in quotation marks), because it's not quite a step-by-step guide, and for good reason. As stated on the Instructables page:
This device plugs right into the cars cigarette lighter port and transmits an FM Radio signal, so you can listen to your favorite GTA radio stations, using your cars radio. The software part is not properly documented and I had to reconstruct some steps from memory, so recreate this at your own risk. This is not a step by step tutorial, this is the best I can do without building another one. I am also in no way a professional, so possible legal and fire risks are your responsibility if you choose to proceed.
Still, if you think you can make a radio out of the information provided, it'll make one amazing project for long road trips.
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