Spencer Organ has been experimenting with a PiTFT touch screen and programming a user interface with PyGame. He’s now documented the process he went through to create an Internet radio player and shared his code. You can read more about it…
Category: Media centre
Slice – a media player powered by Raspberry Pi
A team comprised of Raspberry Pi Foundation insiders, directors of Pimoroni and a music producer have banded together under the title of FiveNinjas to launch a Kickstarter for a new media player called ‘Slice’. The aluminium-cased player is based on…
PS4 with a Raspberry Pi ambilight
EvilBoris has posted a video online showing the Raspberry Pi working as an ambilight server to give environmental lighting effects behind a television. You can see the video below: You can get the kit he used from Lightberry – he…
#RaspberryPi meets 1942 Crosley Radio
Andy Felong took a Raspberry Pi, a case for an old radio, an amplifier and an LCD plus driver board and created a media centre. He’s given a few more details on his blog and, if you post in the…
Set up a jukebox on your #RaspberryPi
AudiculaPi is a Linux distro for the Pi that gives you an MPD Jukebox with a web-based front-end. Here are the features of the system: Minimalistic system, installed and running on a just 100MB sized SD card partition Based on…
HDMIPi for #RaspberryPi continues to grow, announces stretch goals and further expansion
Backers for HDMIPi, the affordable HDMI screen for the Raspberry Pi (among other uses!) have received a massive update newsletter from creators Alex Eames and Dave Mellor. I’ll attempt to summarise: They have announced a stretch goal at £200k (which…
This month’s Linux User & Developer is a #RaspberryPi extravaganza
Issue 129 of Linux User and Developer magazine is a great buy for Raspberry Pi owners. It features the following articles: A 22-page special covering 10 Raspberry Pi projects “made easy” including: Media centre Portable internet radio Torrent client Time-lapse…
Raspbmc for the #RaspberryPi July update
The well-known and much-used media centre distro Raspbmc has just had an update. Read all about the changes
Building a Google TV with a #RaspberryPi – workshop
Here’s a great video from Donald Derek of MenaVersity. It’s a recorded interactive workshop showing how to use a Pi, NodeJS and Socket.io to build a Google TV system.
New products from Pimoroni and ModMyPi for the #RaspberryPi
Just a quick round-up of some new products for the Pi. I have no affiliation to either supplier and haven’t received any review products – just doing a quick summary for those who like buying bits! Gooseneck Camera Mount First…