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PeeG May 2016 3:13pm, 16 May 2016 189 posts	Quote Pin PeeG Cheers fetcheveryone. Had done a bit of that, but will look at it further.
shanksi May 2016 3:51pm, 16 May 2016 1,378 posts	Quote Pin shanksi The beauty of something like a Pi or arduino is that you can quite simply connect stuff to it. Pi + a couple of wires, a resistor, and an LED and you can very quickly create a flashing light that you can control which is a lot more satisfying than it might sound. Extend that by looking at libraries that connect to the internet and you can have a light that flashes on and off when somebody tweets a specific hashtag (for example). Or get an ultrasonic sensor, a bit more wiring and programming and your little LED can be made to light up when someone gets near the sensor. There are examples all over the place, have fun.
shanksi Nov 2016 7:49am, 3 Nov 2016 1,391 posts	Quote Pin shanksi I finally found some time a couple of weeks back to solder the headers for a hifiberry DAC (from hifiberry.com except the one I've got for the old Pi appears to be discontinued) and was pleasantly surprised when it actually produced some decent sounds (after finding the correct settings on runeaudio. I've also switched from runeaudio to volumio (since it seems to be under continuing development and has some great features including the ability to create a wifi hotspot which allows you to connect to it so you can then configure it to connect to whatever network you have!) and stuck in a 64GB flash drive (more than big enough for my music collection at the moment but might replace with a bigger HDD as it develops). Next, I want to see if I can find ways to access live BBC radio (there are forums about this but it seems that the beeb keep changing the address that the stream comes from ), and also see if there are ways to tap into youtube. I am also using the same pi to run kodi off a separate sd card - it would be nice to sort of combine the best features of both of these systems and/or be able to swap quickly between them but not sure exactly where I'm going with that plan. Finally (for now), my other great discovery has been a ghd hair straightener box which is large enough (actually overlarge but that's ok!) to house the pi, a usb hub, flash drive, mini keyboard/mouse pointer, extra sd cards, extra cables, and so on. It's nice and sturdy and can be accessed by a lid and/or by a side that flaps down which is quite smart. It also has glittery bits on it I'll do some pictures at some point.
Chrisull Nov 2016 8:34am, 3 Nov 2016 10,165 posts	Quote Pin Chrisull volumio constant updates you say? I have volumio connecting my PC/itunes to my stereo/speakers, however it took such a faff to configure, I daren't touch it again. How easy is the upgrading? Is it likely to break it a delicate config?
shanksi Nov 2016 8:42am, 3 Nov 2016 1,393 posts	Quote Pin shanksi Not sure what the upgrade path is like because I just loaded the most recent one (volumio-2.001-2016-10-15-pi)
shanksi Nov 2016 8:42am, 3 Nov 2016 1,394 posts	Quote Pin shanksi Not sure what the upgrade path is like because I just loaded the most recent one (volumio-2.001-2016-10-15-pi)
Chrisull Nov 2016 8:49am, 3 Nov 2016 10,166 posts	Quote Pin Chrisull I suppose back it up on a hard drive (or second SD card) and then see how it goes!
flanker Nov 2016 4:42pm, 4 Nov 2016 16,686 posts	Quote Pin flanker This would mean I can get rid that old long audio jack that currently hangs of the back of my amp and plugs into my iPhone/ipad... I assume you can stream to it over airplay or from streaming services? Spotify through my stereo? Worth spending a few quid on...
mattglen_ Jan 2018 1:12am, 12 Jan 2018 6 posts	Quote Pin mattglen_ Hi guys, a bit of a reach here but I'm looking for other tech minded people and couldn't think of any better forum than this! I'm looking for internships as part of my Computer Science degree and have been unsuccessful so far. Does anyone work for, or know of, tech companies or companies with substantial IT departments based in London that are looking to take on an intern? If so I'd really appreciate if you could drop me an fmail, you'd be doing me a huge favour, even if it's just a link I can apply through!
fetcheveryone Aug 2020 11:36am, 24 Aug 2020 24,567 posts	Quote Pin fetcheveryone Just shared my Pi watering project: fetcheveryone.com/blog/3/2020/8#blog410033 TLDR: https://youtu.be/hKWNVBTIIao