Build your own internet radio station with a Raspberry Pi
Titanik A.i.R. together with Radio Nopal organises a hands-on workshop focused on building a mensajito.mx transmitter, structured across three sessions.
mensajito.mx is an option to have your own internet radio station without a computer. It works with an open source technology environment that at the same time provides a free server and a web platform that allows you to experiment and produce your radio.
Workshop schedule:
- Session 1 — 07.07.2026 4 to 7pm
A presentation of 1h of the introduction to the history and context of internet radio, followed by the assembly of a transmitter. We will build the Titanik radio transmitter with mensajito.
- Session 2 — 08.07.2026 4 to 7pm
A listening session in the immediate surroundings of Titanik, where we will capture and work with sounds from the environment. We will spend 2 hours hunting sounds and then 1 to preproduce out first radio broadcast.
(09.07.2026 4 to 7pm – Open 1:1 sessions to help pre produce the next session)
- Session 3 — 10.07.2026 4 to 7pm
A live broadcast of the results produced throughout the workshop and harvest at Titanik.
The workshop will be held in English, guided by Diego Aguirre Fernández.
Maximum capacity: 10 participants.
Registration to the workshop and any questions via email to info@titanik.fi
The workshop is part of a collaboration between Radio Nopal and Titanik A.i.R. residency.
Diego Aguirre Fernández is a graphic designer and a pioneering force in community-based internet radio. A co-creator of the long-running independent station radioglobal.org 2002-2012. He is the founder of Radio Nopal, a Latin American internet radio station producing content from Mexico City. With over 100 collaborators, Radio Nopal focused on music, culture, free technology development, artistic residencies, education, and sustainable governance. Diego and Antonio Salinas developed mensajito.mx, a transmitter based on a Raspberry Pi, a server, and a web platform that allows communities to create their own internet radio stations.
His work has garnered international recognition, including representing Mexico at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale in the project Utopian Infrastructure: The Campesino Basketball Court, in collaboration with APRDELESP studio, and receiving grants from The Awesome Foundation, PAC, and SECTEI. Through Radio Nopal and its global partnerships — such as Lumbung Radio and Lumpen Radio — he fosters a practice centered on creating independent media with free technologies, circular economies, anti-archives, and the preservation of intangible cultural heritage.
