Category Archives: Arduino

RaspberryPi internet radio with display

Posted on December 22, 2013 by blogmywiki

I liked the simple elegance of my Really Simple Raspberry Pi internet radio that just had a push button to change the channel… but I saw this project that connected a RaspberryPi radio to an Arduino LCD shield for displaying … Continue reading →

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How to Build a Little Box of Poems

Posted on October 21, 2012 by blogmywiki

I wanted to build a little internet printer, spewing out weather and tweets and the like. When I was testing my thermal printer, however, I got bored reading sample text and replaced it with a short poem. And that gave … Continue reading →

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Little Box of Poems

Posted on October 18, 2012 by blogmywiki

Anyone who’s unfortunate enough to follow me on Flickr knows that I’ve become a bit obsessed by till-roll lately. I bought a tiny thermal till-roll printer to hook up to my Arduino or RaspberryPi, the idea being to make a … Continue reading →

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Fridge Gizmo recap

Posted on September 21, 2012 by blogmywiki

Here’s a quick recap on the main steps I took in making a self-contained gizmo which displays London weather, global random tweets and Twitter trends on an LCD display. No soldering was involved. It’s really rather hypnotic watching utterly random … Continue reading →

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Making FridgeGizmo run automatically

Posted on September 19, 2012 by blogmywiki

…or How to Get a Script to Run Automatically at the Auto-login on default Raspberry Pi Raspbian Linux. I want to get my FridgeGizmo that displays local weather and global tweets on an LCD display to start itself up automatically … Continue reading →

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