[mircemk] has brought the idea right up to date by building an FM radio with an OLED display, controlled with a rotary encoder. The design is fairly ... on a tidy custom PCB, and this one built ...
The TDA1701 that [Philip Bragg] found in a box of junk is a complete FM IF strip and ... of a decent quality VHF radio receiver, built dead-bug-style on a piece of PCB material.