[access-uk] Internet Radio, interesting aside...
- From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Access-UK <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:20:27 +0000
Hello list,
There has been some discussion about internet radios, and I thought I'd
tell you about what I have been doing today....
On Saturday morning I received a Raspberry Pi in the post. For those
who don't know, this is a credit-card sized Linux computer. I say Linux
but it can run other operating systems.
Anyway...to cut a long story short, today I have created an internet
radio from it. I wrote some code to get the radio station URLs, put
them in a database, and, with a web server installed on the Pi I created
an intranet page from which I can select which station I want to listen to.
I am currently streaming Radio 4 Extra while I type on my Windows machine.
I am going to get hold of a cheap wifi dongle, and bung the whole lot
into a small plastic box with some push buttons on, write some code to
detect the button presses and change stations.
Next project, another plastic box with six push buttons on it and code
inside to make the Raspi into a Braille note-taker for under 50 quid.
Oh and I wrote the odd letter today too.
Mike
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Michael A. Ray
Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
Ham Radio Callsign: G4XBF, licenced since 1982
Use the NVDA screen-reader, not Scientific, just Freedom:
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