Tag Archives: radio

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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Green Continuity

Posted on May 11, 2012 by blogmywiki

Green Con was where the main World Service English language network was put on air. The announcer sat on this side, and the Studio Manager sat on the other side of the glass on the right (now a TV studio) … Continue reading →

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Lauren Laverne on BBC 6Music

Posted on December 10, 2009 by blogmywiki

This made me laugh out loud. So lovely to have mornings back again on 6Music… sigh. And I had that Holly Johnson in my studio a few weeks ago. I was sitting there playing out most of ‘Two Tribes’ on … Continue reading →

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