Just kidding! The LM386 has its place — on the breadboard, in the one-off perfboarded circuit, or even free-formed with parts hanging off of it in mid-air. And as the granddaddy of DIP-format ...
A recent design by [Selenium] is super simple because it uses a single LM386 audio amplifier IC. You might be surprised that you can convert an audio amplifier to a receiver using just a handful ...