Marton @ Jul 12, 2026

I always liked to see and touch the cover artwork of the CDs and LPs I bought in the past, but in the end the convenience of digital streaming won me over and I accepted no (or stamp-sized) artwork. Lately I’ve been missing this more and more and ultimately decided to try to do something about it. So I built a streamer.

The hardware

I wanted a device that looks and feels like a vinyl sleeve put on display. Around 12”x 12”, and as thin as possible. I sourced the only display matching my needs: a 17” industrial IPS LCD with a 1920x1920 resolution. This came with an embedded DisplayPort connector and I needed to find a single-board computer in a compute module form that has this connector. Not a lot to choose from, but I managed to find the Radxa CM3.

Since I wanted the device to be thin, I needed to design a carrier board for the CM3 with as little height-above-the-board as possible.…