Category Archives: operating systems

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 a wireless printer from a Raspberry Pi

Posted on December 9, 2013 by blogmywiki

I had two bits of unused hardware knocking around – a Raspberry Pi that used to run my Go Free Range weather printer (the thermal printer broke – another story), and an old Samsung ML-1510 black and white laser printer … Continue reading →

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Give the hudl a cudl

Posted on October 31, 2013 by blogmywiki

We got a Tesco hudl today – a very belated present for Son B. The hudl is a cheap (£119 – potentially much less if you have enough Clubcard points) 7 inch Android tablet that competes with the Amazon Kindle … Continue reading →

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Weather forecast on a RaspberryPi printer – now with added Pi

Posted on May 25, 2013 by blogmywiki

Here’s how I get the weather printed on my RaspberryPi-powered GoFreeRange internet printer every morning at 6AM. Overview I made a GoFreeRange printer using a RaspberryPi instead of an Arduino. I signed up for IFTTT and got it to send … Continue reading →

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