Raspberry Pi enthusiasts searching for a project to keep them busy this weekend may be interested to know that the latest issue of the HackSpace magazine, created by the official Raspberry Pi team features a project that allows you to build a Raspberry Pi RFID and NFC reader. Using a NFC HAT the Raspberry Pi …
Project Replaced by: https://www.hackster.io/Granpino/raspiplayer-internet-radio-and-mp3-folder-player-rev2-4-3ddfdf This internet radio and MP3 player uses a 3.5 HDMI LCD touchscreen for operation. The original project was published by Adafruit. https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-radio-player-with-touchscreen/overview The project uses MPC, MPD and Pygame. The project has been evolving over time. I am still trying to incorporate automatic album images on the sreen. Installation: Download the raspbian stretch image …
Raspberry Pi Internet Radio and MP3 Player with Bluetooth Continue Reading
Radio emissions from sky sources like Sun and Jupiter can be received and converted to digital domain for processing. UPDATE 3 – May 7, 2018 Please note that starting from version 9 the software makes usage of latest Skyfield version (1.3). You can install Skyfield using pip install skyfield It is no longer necessary to install using pip install …
Radio-Astronomy with RTL-SDR, RPi and Amazon AWS IoT Continue Reading
It’s a common scene: a dedicated radio amateur wakes up early in the morning, ambles over to their shack, and sits in the glow of vacuum tubes as they call CQ DX, trying to contact hams in time zones across the world. It’s also a common scene for the same ham to sit in the …
SB Components have today unveiled their new Raspberry Pi RFID HAT which will soon be available to purchase and has been specifically designed to enable users to read the information stored on RFID key fob and tags.The RFID HAT system consists of mainly three components: RFID key fob/ card/ tag, antenna, and an RFID reader. …
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Listening to radio from distant countries used to take a shortwave rig, but thanks to the Internet we can now pull in streams from all over the globe from the comfort of our own desktop. With a few clicks you can switch between your local news station and the latest in pop trends from Casablanca. …
WORLD RADIO LETS YOUR FINGERS DO THE WALKING Continue Reading
Adapting Adafruit’s CircuitPython to use the RFM69HCW Radio FeatherWing on the Zynq-7000 series FPGAs. One of my most commonly used Raspberry Pi shields I discovered a few years ago is the 433 MHz RadioFruit RFM69HCW Transceiver Radio Bonnet from Adafruit. The RFM69HCW is a transceiver module with a wide operating frequency range, and all of …
Pi OS for Zynqberry: Adafruit RFM69 Radio with CircuitPython Continue Reading
It’s hurricane season in the northern hemisphere right now, and plenty of news and weather organizations remain dedicated to alerting people if a storm is about to impact their area. There’s no shortage of ways to receive this information, either. We all have our favorite weather app or forecasting site, and there are emergency alerts …
Google has been responsible for unleashing some pretty incredible hardware and software on the world, but they can only take partial credit for the voice to Morse code gadget that [WhiskeyTangoHotel] recently completed. With the Google AIY Voice Bonnet, [WhiskeyTangoHotel] had everything he needed to pick up on human speech and turn that into text the Raspberry Pi …
Today’s ham radio gear often has a facility for remote control, but they most often talk to a computer, not the operator. Hambone, on the other hand, acts like a ham radio robot, decoding TouchTone digits and taking action — for example, keying the radio and reading off the weather — in response to the commands …
