I needed a case for the RaspberryPi. The good thing about the RPi being a business card-sized computer is that it fits nicely in a plastic box from old business cards. If you look on Ebay, you can buy 20 of them for £5 including delivery. The boxes make fantastic custom RPi cases! I didn’t […]
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This is how the final product looks like on my desk. I now need to write a python script which will translate various button combinations into actions. Stay tuned…
Step one was to draw the positions of the buttons on a piece of paper. I secured the drawing with some tape. I first drilled pilot holes, then used a 16mm metal drillbit to widen the hole. A step drillbit was then used to accurately widen the button holes to the right size. An […]
An IKEA mirror gradually becomes a control panel…
RaspberryPi is a great budget computer. To keep the cost of the unit down, there is no real time clock. This is usually taken care of by the software: the operating system gets the accurate date-time automatically from one of the time servers. When a RaspberryPi is kept offline but accurate time keeping is needed, […]
This is a short video of a project I completed last month: a music box for my goddaughter. This music box was put together using a Lego storage box, a raspberrypi B+ and a speaker, along with a few MP3s of original music box sounds and lullabies. Python and a few bash scripts took care […]