Try this at home: Bringing a 1934 radio back to life

For Friday/weekend fun, take a look at this 1934 Simplex Model P radio that a radio enthusiast "refurbed."

We're no electronics experts here, but it looks like some great Depression-era "tubes & wires porn," if that's your thing! But the end result, say, getting to hear "Call Me Maybe" through a box that looks like it fell off Tom Joad's wagon, may not actually be worth all the trouble.

In which case, we'd like to point you back to an earlier story in RAIN, here, which shows how to install an Android smartphone in an FM radio to make it an Internet "receiver."

Read (and see) lots more J.W. Koebel's blog here. H/T to HackaDay.com here.