Category Archives: Raspberry Pi

Big list of internet radio stations

Posted on May 27, 2014 by blogmywiki

IMPORTANT UPDATE APRIL 2015: The BBC has changed the way it streams network radio – see here for details. I’ve been tinkering with my PiRadio tonight. I loaded someone else’s code, which unfortunately included the command mpc clear – this … Continue reading →

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Screen recording & controlling Raspberry Pi on a Mac with no extra software

Posted on April 26, 2014 by blogmywiki

It’s been bugging me for a while about how to do screen recordings on a RaspberryPi – it may be possible to do it using ffmpeg, but today I found a pretty easy way of doing it from a Mac, … Continue reading →

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Tweeting photos from PS2 EyeToy on Raspberry Pi

Posted on April 19, 2014 by blogmywiki

It took some fairly heavy footling and jiggery-pokery, but I finally managed to get my Raspberry Pi to run a Python script which takes a photo on a webcam and tweets the picture – meaning I could set up a … Continue reading →

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Adding a station and summertime to PiRadio

Posted on April 12, 2014 by blogmywiki

“Summer’s here! It’s time for MAYONNAISE!” I think that was how Bill Bryson described a typical British women’s magazine strapline of the 50s or 60s. Summertime also means that my PiRadio is displaying frosty old GMT, so I need to … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi cases – how do they stack up?

Posted on April 6, 2014 by blogmywiki

We’re a 3-Pi household now – our 2 very early 1st generation Pis are used as an internet radio and a wireless print server, and the last one is used for general testing, project making and also got pressed into … Continue reading →

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