Category Archives: Arduino

Makey Makey

Posted on April 10, 2014 by blogmywiki

I am very late to the Makey Makey party, I know. In case you don’t know what it is, it’s a gizmo that plugs into just about any computer’s USB port. The computer thinks it’s a normal USB keyboard (MacOS … Continue reading →

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Quick and dirty Raspberry Pi radio scheduling

Posted on December 31, 2013 by blogmywiki

Many thanks to James West for putting me onto this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2013/09/prototyping-radio-experiences-with-radiodan and http://radiodan.github.io/. A lot of this seems quite complex – I like really, really simple things – but it’s got me thinking about building my own simple radio schedule, … Continue reading →

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Scrolling LCD text on Arduino/Raspberry Pi

Posted on December 30, 2013 by blogmywiki

As part of my Raspberry Pi/Arduino internet radio project, I’m tinkering with getting the display to show something other than the station name and the time and date – the weather, for example. Now we’ve been having quite a lot … Continue reading →

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Fip Radio

Posted on December 26, 2013 by blogmywiki

I was tinkering with my Raspberry Pi / Arduino internet radio, and stumbled upon David Hepworth talking about Fip radio. This is France Inter Paris, which plays ‘French chanson, jazz, world music, film soundtracks, alt.rock and the occasional blast of … Continue reading →

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PiRadio with clock

Posted on December 25, 2013 by blogmywiki

I’ve made my RaspberryPi internet radio much more reliable – by swapping it for my other Pi. Not sure if it’s the Pi or the wifi dongle that was dodgy – I may have a poorly Pi. (New readers – … Continue reading →

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