Building a KEXP Now Playing Display

I listen to KEXP a lot. It’s on in the background while I’m working, making coffee, cooking dinner, whatever. However, I no longer live in Seattle and wanted to bring KEXP into my life even more…Enter: the KEXP now playing display. A Raspberry Pi-powered RGB LED matrix shows whatever’s currently playing on KEXP in real time, even when I’m not listening. The Hardware Setup A few years ago, my holiday project was setting up an LED matrix to display what flights were passing by our house based on the great project from Collen Waddell: FlightTracker.

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