Tag Archives: Arduino

50p reverse LED Arduino theremin

Okay, it’s not exactly musical, but this is a pretty cool quick Arduino project you can make with: an LED a piezo buzzer er, that’s it Okay, you need an Arduino, but it doesn’t even use a resistor. I used … Continue reading

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Little Box of Christmas

A good while ago, I made The Little Box of Poems. This is a box that prints a random poem every time you push a big red button. Inside is an Arduino microcontroller and a thermal till roll printer, and … Continue reading

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Makey Makey

I am very late to the Makey Makey party, I know. In case you don’t know what it is, it’s a gizmo that plugs into just about any computer’s USB port. The computer thinks it’s a normal USB keyboard (MacOS … Continue reading

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Scrolling LCD text on Arduino/Raspberry Pi

As part of my Raspberry Pi/Arduino internet radio project, I’m tinkering with getting the display to show something other than the station name and the time and date – the weather, for example. Now we’ve been having quite a lot … Continue reading

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Fip Radio

I was tinkering with my Raspberry Pi / Arduino internet radio, and stumbled upon David Hepworth talking about Fip radio. This is France Inter Paris, which plays ‘French chanson, jazz, world music, film soundtracks, alt.rock and the occasional blast of … Continue reading

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