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Day 23 of 30DaysOfCreativity - Buttons for the raspbery car radio
Today I soldered a board to interface the push buttons of the blaupunkt car radio that gets a new raspberry pi based brain. I tested the buttons with an arduino which worked very well. Then I tried to...
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Day 24 of 30DaysOfCreativity - a breadboard arduino
Originally I planned to interface the hardware of the blaupunkt car radio from the 60ties using an attiny85 and an attiny2313 talking to the raspberry pi via i2c. But unfortunately this setup seems to...
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Day 26 of 30DaysOfCreativity - prototyping the controls
Today I hooked up the RGB led, the buttons and the potentionmeter to my breadboard arduino. I run the ATMega328P with a 20Mhz crystal and 3.3V which works pretty well. All my problems with I2C...
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Day 27 of 30daysofcreativity - testing the amp module
Today I tested the amplifier module for the raspberry pi based radio. Now I need to write the software for controlling the radio using the buttons and create circuit boards for the modules that live...
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Day 28 of 30daysofcreativity - testing the radiopi software
today I started to write and test the software for my raspberry pi and arduino based retro car radio. Here is a short video that shows how the switching of the stations works. There are 4 slots for the...
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Day 30 of 30DaysOfCreativity - RadioPI interface module
Today I finished the interface module for my raspberry pi based retro car radio. The module interfaces the buttons, the variable resistor and a RGB-led using an ATMega 328p running an arduino...
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RadioPI - finalizing the audio module
Today I soldered the radio module for my rapsberry pi based car radio. This was the last soldering/electronic challenge for this project now I only need to finish the software (= easy) and the hardware...
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RadioPI hardware part 1
Yesterday I started mounting the components for my raspberry pi based retro car radio into the housing of the blaupunkt radio from the 60ties.And I learned a lot - the hard way :-)For example that USB...
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RadioPI - debugging
When it comes to DIY projects one rule that ALLWAYS applies is that it takes longer than originally planned :-/I´m currently debugging the radio module for my raspberry pi based retro-car-radio project...
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Lego AT-AT-Walker Raspberry PI case
I modified my LEGO AT-AT walker model a bit and removed the storm-troopers that where sitting inside (who are obviously very incompetent, because they can't even make the walker stand up again after it...
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Day 28 of 30daysofcreativity - testing the radiopi software
today I started to write and test the software for my raspberry pi and arduino based retro car radio. Here is a short video that shows how the switching of the stations works. There are 4 slots for the...
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Day 30 of 30DaysOfCreativity - RadioPI interface module
Today I finished the interface module for my raspberry pi based retro car radio. The module interfaces the buttons, the variable resistor and a RGB-led using an ATMega 328p running an arduino...
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RadioPI - finalizing the audio module
Today I soldered the radio module for my rapsberry pi based car radio. This was the last soldering/electronic challenge for this project now I only need to finish the software (= easy) and the hardware...
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RadioPI hardware part 1
Yesterday I started mounting the components for my raspberry pi based retro car radio into the housing of the blaupunkt radio from the 60ties.And I learned a lot - the hard way :-)For example that USB...
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RadioPI - debugging
When it comes to DIY projects one rule that ALLWAYS applies is that it takes longer than originally planned :-/I´m currently debugging the radio module for my raspberry pi based retro-car-radio project...
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Lego AT-AT-Walker Raspberry PI case
I modified my LEGO AT-AT walker model a bit and removed the storm-troopers that where sitting inside (who are obviously very incompetent, because they can't even make the walker stand up again after it...
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DIY Zynthian Prototype
I started experimmenting with the Zynthian linux image for a spare Raspberry PI and a touch screen shield that have been sitting unused in my spares drawer. Now I finally managed to get some rotary...
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DIY Zynthian housing prototype
I started creating a housing for my diy zynthian - the front panel is currently made of cardboard to allow me to experiment a little bit with the placement of the various components. Dino isn't yet...
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DIY Zynthian housing prototype part II
I created a new cardboard prototype for my zynthian. This time dino is much more satisfied with the button placement and he also likes the color of the buttons and the bezel :-)I think this will be the...
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DIY Zynthian flower housing
I finished my final version of the Zynthian housing! I went for a spring-theme and spraypainted the housing in green and the lid black to give it a little bit of contrast. And since I start to get...
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