Category Archives: operating systems

2 cool RaspberryPi projects

Posted on January 4, 2015 by blogmywiki

Here are two insanely cool Raspberry Pi projects I spotted this week. First up, turn a rotary dial phone into an MP3 player. This seems really simple and do-able. James West points out that some telephone EQ on the audio … Continue reading →

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Can’t afford a Hemingwrite? I have an idea…

Posted on December 12, 2014 by blogmywiki

I LOVE the idea of the Hemingwrite. It’s like a portable typewriter that allows you to write distraction-free whilst still saving your work electronically and backing it up online. It has a proper keyboard and – crucially – an eInk … Continue reading →

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Displayotron3000 Pi Radio

Posted on November 9, 2014 by blogmywiki

IMPORTANT UPDATE JULY 2015: The BBC has changed the way it streams network radio – see here for details. And Fip has moved to http://audio.scdn.arkena.com/11016/fip-midfi128.mp3 In the summertime I built a Raspberry Pi radio that I could control via a … 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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First steps with Kano

Posted on March 23, 2014 by blogmywiki

A new cute-looking Raspberry Pi kit and OS? That’s what Kano claims to offer – a rather spiffy kit containing a Raspberry Pi, wireless keyboard & trackpad, OS on SD card, wifi adaptor, speaker, power supply and a nice case … Continue reading →

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