Alex has been having fun with Carrie-Anne Philbin’s Sonic Pi tutorials and has recreated the classic Flight of the Bumblebee using his Pi. Read all about it and listen here
Category: Music
New distro for #RaspberryPi – RaspyFi – reaches version 1
RaspyFi is an open source linux distribution. According to their site, “it will transform your Raspberry Pi into an audiophile source, in 10 minutes without hassles. It comes ready to play, and it’s compatible with almost every USB DAC available.”…
Karaoke machine with a #RaspberryPi and USB microphone
Over at Pi Fun, Dextrus has written a tutorial on creating a karaoke machine with the Pi. You just need a USB microphone and he recommends running it headless using a wifi dongle. Here it is in action: Read more…
4-note piano with a #RaspberryPi and a #PicoBorg
The guys over at Governor Technology have taken a Raspberry Pi, a PiBorg, a PicoBorg and some solenoids and created a 4-note piano. Take a look and see how they did it and play the piano live! Read it here
Playing music on a #RaspberryPi using UPnP and DLNA
Stephen Phillips has written an extensive blog post on how to set your Pi up to play music using a networked hard drive and a mobile app to control it. Read about it here
Digital vintage radio using a #RaspberryPi
Florian Amrhein has been messing around with a decades-old Philips tube radio. He’s put a Raspberry Pi and a bunch of other stuff inside the ultra-retro casing and created an IP radio. He’s blogged in-depth about it. Read about the project…
#RaspberryPi synthesiser round-up
Liz has posted a great summary of Raspberry Pi music synthesiser projects over on the Foundation blog. I particularly like the TronPi (watch the entire video and embrace the 1980s vibe). The Korg monotron project, of course, was featured on…
Building an audio processing looper with a #RaspberryPi and KORG monotron
Servando Barreiro has made an audio processor/looper using a Raspberry Pi and the KORG monotron. Looks like a sweet project. Read more about it here
Command line audio from the #RaspberryPi
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has been experimenting with different ways of getting audio out of the Pi and through the 3.5mm jack. He explains what to install to play MP3s or WAVs. Read his blog here
#RaspberryPi Ghetto Blaster in a suitcase
Tarek Ziadé from Mozilla has created an 80s-style ghetto blaster using a Raspberry Pi, an aluminium suitcase and some in-car speakers. His solution for powering it involves a 12V lipo battery, which is very neat. Read more here