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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,…
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…
Spent some time working on the Raspberry Pi Music Box. Mounted the speakers and the audio amplifier last night. Still need to do the internal wiring and sort out the power/battery. Update (Sept 2016): The full project write up can be found here.
As much as we all love the Pi Zero, the connectivity options are very limited. With only one (micro) USB port (for peripherals) it means you need a micro <=> ‘normal’ USB adapter to get any of the usual accessories (keyboard, Wi-Fi dongle etc.) plugged in, and when you have that’s it…
I had a couple of hours free this evening, and so began to do work on the first stage of the Raspberry Pi Music Player project. This was mostly the modifications to the plastic power tool case which is going to serve as the ‘enclosure’ for the Music Player project. Here’s…
To date (July 2016), there have been 8 versions of the Raspberry Pi. Below is an outline of each. Raspberry Pi Model A The Model A sported the ARMv6 architecture (700MHz, single core ARM11) with a Broadcom BCM2835 SoC. It had 256MB of RAM and a 26 pin version of…
I’ve been trying to get some code running on my Pi 2. The code has been ‘problematic’ to get running, and I’m running into frequent hangs on the Pi where I cannot initiate a new SSH or console session. It’s also complicated because the Pi is outside in the garage…
