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Podcasts: skip intro
Something occurred to me as I binge-listened to the excellent BBC World Service podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon. Podcast makers might want to consider changing the grammar, the format, after a podcast has been initially released – or change … Continue reading
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald (1980). 4th Estate Books, £8.99 It’s hard not think that I was destined to read, and indeed love, this book. Andy Miller recommended it to me saying he thought it would be right up my … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, fiction, literature, radio
Tagged BBC, books, hum, literature, London, radio, WWII
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piPlay
A simple Raspberry Pi audio playout system with GUI for radio or theatre. It runs from one Python 3 program (code on Github) on a vanilla Raspberry Pi running Raspbian and requires no other software or libraries to be installed. … Continue reading
Fip Now Plays
I’ve been tweaking my touch-screen Raspberry Pi radio. It’s optimised for the Pimoroni HyperPixel display, but it would work with any touch-screen, although it may need scaling for different sized screens. Aside from the mpd/mpc music player and adding some … Continue reading
Posted in radio, Raspberry Pi
Tagged Fip, HyperPixel, Pimoroni, Python, radio, RaspberryPi
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Raspberry Pi Cartwall
piCartWall A Raspberry Pi radio / theatre cartwall to play jingles or sound FX instantly using a touch screen. What it does Cartwalls are used in radio studios to play in jingles at the touch of a button. This is … Continue reading
Posted in computers, hardware, radio, Raspberry Pi
Tagged Python, radio, RaspberryPi, theatre
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