Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Learn more at crowdsupply.com/sonocotta/esparagus-media-center
Esparagus Media Center is a series of three ESP32-based audio products designed to modernize aging stereo speaker systems with cutting-edge internet streaming capabilities.
These standalone devices connect to your existing hi-fi system, offering a fast and simple upgrade. All three boards are based on the ESP32 microcontroller, so they barely use any power while idle, and boot up in seconds.
Esparagus Media Center boards come with firmware that runs Spotify Connect, Apple AirPlay, and Logitech Media Server, and can receive Bluetooth audio from a local source like a smartphone. They can be used to build multi-room audio systems. And, because they use open hardware and firmware, they can be customized to run your own software.
Crowd Supply is a store, distributor, and crowdfunding platform. Our mission is to bring original, useful, respectful hardware to life.
Learn more at crowdsupply.com/sonocotta/esparagus-media-center
Esparagus Media Center is a series of three ESP32-based audio products designed to modernize aging stereo speaker systems with cutting-edge internet streaming capabilities.
These standalone devices connect to your existing hi-fi system, offering a fast and simple upgrade. All three boards are based on the ESP32 microcontroller, so they barely use any power while idle, and boot up in seconds.
Esparagus Media Center boards come with firmware that runs Spotify Connect, Apple AirPlay, and Logitech Media Server, and can receive Bluetooth audio from a local source like a smartphone. They can be used to build multi-room audio systems. And, because they use open hardware and firmware, they can be customized to run your own software.
Crowd Supply is a store, distributor, and crowdfunding platform. Our mission is to bring original, useful, respectful hardware to life.



![Teardown Session 46: Thunderscope Launch with Aleksa Bjelogrlic
** Many thanks to this Teardown Sessions sponsor: AMD! **
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions, Crowd Supplys Helen Leigh celebrates the launch of the Thunderscope oscilloscope with Aleksa Bjelogrlic.
*About ThunderScope*
ThunderScope packs the power of expensive, bulky high-end oscilloscopes into a portable and affordable package. While traditional scopes are limited by their built-in processing capabilities and cramped user interfaces, ThunderScope is designed to stream the complete 1 GS/s of sample data in real time to your computer for processing and analysis. ThunderScope’s fast connections (via Thunderbolt, USB 4, and PCI Express) and unique software-defined architecture allows it to be used for everything from simple measurements to complex protocol analysis.
*About Our Guest*
[Via Hackaday] Aleksa is an electrical engineer who loves test equipment and open-source hardware. For the last several years, he combined those two passions to design an open-source oscilloscope from the ground up to be faster, more flexible, and accessible to all.
*Links & Resources*
* EEVengers: https://www.eevengers.com/
* Thunderscope GitHub repo: https://github.com/EEVengers/ThunderScope
* NG-Scope Client: https://www.ngscopeclient.org/
* LiteX FPGA dev tool: https://www.litex.dev/
* The Open Hardware Summit conf: https://2024.oshwa.org/
* Hackaday Prize 2021 Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIc-xa1BUYk
* Hackaday project page: https://hackaday.io/project/180090-thunderscope
* Thunderscope on Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eevengers/thunderscope
* AMDs FPGA Playground: https://www.crowdsupply.com/amd/fpga-playground
* AMD-Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Xilinx/XC7A35T-2CSG325C?qs=rrS6PyfT74epuZxLpm8mMg%3D%3D
Twitter/X: @helenleigh @crowd_supply
*About the Teardown Sessions*
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