Category Archives: hardware

You’ve come a long way, baby

Posted on February 21, 2014 by blogmywiki

that was then… and this is now… I’ve been setting up Raspberry Pi computers since they came out, but setting up a new one with my daughter yesterday made me realise how very, very far this little computer has come. … Continue reading →

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Controlling Raspberry Pi from £29 Nook e-reader

Posted on December 31, 2013 by blogmywiki

I installed ConnectBot on my rooted £29 Nook e-reader – and I can log into my Raspberry Pi radio from anywhere in the house using ssh. And change the station in the kitchen. Mwa-ha-ha.

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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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