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Review of the Year – only kidding
I hate New Year’s Eve, I hate looking back at the last 12 months and I hate making resolutions. Especially when years suck as much at 2014 did. I won’t bore you with the details, but it included death...
View Article2 cool RaspberryPi projects
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...
View ArticleJ’accuse: Apple killed the podcast
Okay, this isn’t exactly scientific. It’s based on a sample of precisely… 1. Me. But I can’t believe I’m alone. (Okay, my Morrissey A-Level studies tell me that we are all alone and shall be for ever,...
View ArticleUpdated list of BBC network radio URLs
The BBC has changed the way it streams a lot of its radio stations on the internet. You can read more about the changes on the BBC Blog. One upshot of this was that none of my many RaspberryPi internet...
View ArticleCoolPlay for MacOS X
What is CoolPlay? A Coldplay tribute band? Well, yes it is – but it’s also a piece of Windows audio play out software written for BBC News between 2000 and 2010. At its simplest, it allows you to load...
View ArticleMy life in the Bush of ghosts
Yesterday, thanks to the kindness of Wanda Petrusewicz in remembering me, I was able to look inside Bush House, straddling Aldwych and the Strand in London. It was the home of the BBC World Service...
View ArticleLast Orders podcast is here!
My first ever podcast is ready to consume – lend me 15 minutes and I will take you on a journey to an old builders’ yard in South East London, now home to shiny brewing vessels and where you can learn...
View ArticleHow to Win Eurovision
As soon as I heard Mans Zelmerlow’s ‘Heroes’, I knew it was going to win Eurovision. Or to be more accurate, as soon as I saw it I knew it would win. It was the smart graphics and animation that won it...
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Fip has moved
As you may know, I love making little internet radios from Raspberry Pi computers – mostly so I can listen to the wonderful French radio station Fip. Fip plays a mixture of jazz, left-field rock and...
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Python CoolPlay for OS X
Update – a new version of PyPlay is now on GitHub. It has pretty colours and gives you the out time and everything. CoolPlay is a very useful Windows program that plays audio files. So what? Lots of...
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Updated URLs for your internet radio
I’ve just been doing my annual maintenance on my kitchen radio – it’s an old RaspberryPi with a lovely Pimoroni Displayotron3000, and it runs their lovely radio script. (You configure it by editing...
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Roundup of micro:bit resources
If you are lucky enough to have your class sets of BBC micro:bits for your Year 7s (and it seems plenty of schools are still waiting, mere weeks from the end of the academic year), here’s summary of...
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Little Box of Fip
I’ve made many Raspberry Pi internet radios in the past – here’s how to make the simplest one possible, making use of an ancient RaspberryPi 1B that was lying neglected at the back of the drawer. This...
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Flotilla-controlled Raspberry Pi internet radio
As you may know, I love making different internet radios with Raspberry Pis! This week I’ve been rediscovering the Pimoroni Flotilla modular physical computing devices which I backed on Kickstarter a...
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Raspberry Pi Freeview PVR and TV streamer
I’ve had a cheap USB SDR stick sitting in my Amazon basket for… about 2 years. I finally got round to buying the thing. What is an SDR? It’s a Software Defined Radio – a radio tuner that allows you to...
View ArticleRFID card kit for Raspberry Pi
Two videos (one short, one long) exploring the Monk Makes Clever Card kit for the Raspberry Pi. I really recommend this RFID card kit, it is excellent value and the supplied software is very...
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PyPlay for Raspberry Pi
Ages ago I made a simple Python program that would play audio files out one at a time on a Mac. What’s the big deal with that? Don’t lots of programs do that? Well, I don’t think so, at least not on a...
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The Little Box of Witter
I’ve made a Little Box of Poems with an Arduino, Raspberry Pi and even BBC micro:bit, now I want to make a Little Box of Witter: a gadget that will play the latest episode of my favourite radio...
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Raspberry Pi Cartwall
piCartWall A Raspberry Pi radio / theatre cartwall to play jingles or sound FX instantly using a touch screen. What it does Cartwalls are used in radio studios to play in jingles at the touch of a...
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Fip Now Plays
I’ve been tweaking my touch-screen Raspberry Pi radio. It’s optimised for the Pimoroni HyperPixel display, but it would work with any touch-screen, although it may need scaling for different sized...
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