Category Archives: Debian

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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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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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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