Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
For a while now I’ve been meaning to put together a board with a few IR LEDs for a Pi NoIR Camera… The Pi NoIR camera is an add on for the Raspberry Pi that uses the CSI-2 camera interface on the Pi. It’s just like a normal camera except it…
I’ve been playing around with getting a Raspberry Pi with a RDA5708 FM Radio module working. I bought 2 of them from ebay for around £7. They took around 2 weeks to arrive (from China). Wiring them up is pretty simple. They are controlled via I2C, so only need SDA,…
After one too many times of forgetting to shutdown my (headless) Raspberry Pi before shutting down my PC/laptop (and resorting to just pulling the power plug), I decided I needed a button to shut it down gracefully – a ‘Raspberry Pi Shutdown Button’… There’s lots of solutions around for this,…
Our kitchen radio finally gave up the ghost a few days ago. I suspect it is just the power supply, and at some point I’ll crack it open and see if it is salvageable. However, it was a good opportunity for another little side project – A Vintage Pi Radio.…
This project, a Raspberry Pi Outdoor Music Player had been germinating in my mind for a while. We’d had a few BBQs and found that running an extension outside to plug the iPod and speaker system into was a bit of a pain. Requirements I had seen a whole bunch…
Postman had a gift for me today. 2 of these new BBC Micro:bit devices arrived. I guess that mean I have to find another 2 projects to build…
Finally completed the V1 Pi Outdoor Music Player. This is an old power tool case modified to mount/contain: Speakers mounted on the top/face. A 3Watt 5Volt stereo audio amp. A 20,000mAh portable battery pack. A Raspberry Pi B+ with a Wifi dongle, running mpd and ympd. Sound is loud enough for…
I had a little SSD1306 128 x 64 bit OLED display laying around from a previous Arduino project, so I thought it was time to do a bit of OLED display interfacing with a Raspberry Pi. Display The device I had was an I2C version of the 0.96” 128x 64…
Take all 26 letters of the alphabet, add the numbers 0 to 9 and a bunch of punctuation. Now work out the byte arrays for the character maps required to display each character on a 128x64bit OLED display…
So, it was time to buy another Raspberry Pi Zero Case, as I’m now onto my third one of these amazing little devices. I had intended to buy another of the cases that I purchased for my first one. At the last minute I decide I should probably go for…
