Category Archives: hardware

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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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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Making my PiRadio run at startup

Posted on December 21, 2013 by blogmywiki

Oddly, the hardest thing so far has been making my Really Very Simple RaspberryPi radio start playing by itself when you turn it on. Which is really the sort of thing you expect a radio to do, really. Not much … Continue reading →

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PiRadio part 2 – adding a button

Posted on December 18, 2013 by blogmywiki

Tonight my daughter (8) helped me add a button to my RaspberryPi internet radio, which I made out of bits of electronic rubbish lying round the house. We started by going back to basics and just getting a button working. … Continue reading →

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Making an internet radio from a Griffin iMic and RaspberryPi

Posted on December 15, 2013 by blogmywiki

IMPORTANT UPDATE – July 2015: BBC Radio addresses have changed – see here for more info. And Fip has moved to http://audio.scdn.arkena.com/11016/fip-midfi128.mp3 Continuing the theme of making something useful out of unloved gadgets lying round the house, today I started … Continue reading →

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