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Squishy Circuits

Posted on November 24, 2014 by blogmywiki

I shall call him SQUISHY and he shall be mine and he shall be my SQUISHY – Dory, Finding Nemo This is a wonderful idea for teaching electrical circuits and more (thanks to Linda Sandvik for tweeting about something that … Continue reading →

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Little Box of Haiku

Posted on November 19, 2014 by blogmywiki

Following on from my Little Box of Poems – which printed a random poem on till-roll (and which also inspired Carrie Anne Philbin’s Little Box of Geek) – I present: The Little Box of Haiku. It’s made from a RaspberryPi … Continue reading →

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Thoughts about Serial

Posted on November 16, 2014 by blogmywiki

It seems as if everyone in my Twitter timeline is raving about Serial. Serial is an American podcast about a possible miscarriage of justice. Episode 1 describes itself thus: It’s Baltimore, 1999. Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappears … Continue reading →

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Displayotron3000 Pi Radio

Posted on November 9, 2014 by blogmywiki

IMPORTANT UPDATE JULY 2015: The BBC has changed the way it streams network radio – see here for details. And Fip has moved to http://audio.scdn.arkena.com/11016/fip-midfi128.mp3 In the summertime I built a Raspberry Pi radio that I could control via a … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi internet radio with web interface

Posted on October 28, 2014 by blogmywiki

Having made a bare-bones Raspberry Pi internet radio and one with an LCD display with push buttons to change channel, I decided that it would be nice to be able to control it from my smartphone, as well as displaying … Continue reading →

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