Florian Amrhein has been messing around with a decades-old Philips tube radio. He’s put a Raspberry Pi and a bunch of other stuff inside the ultra-retro casing and created an IP radio. He’s blogged in-depth about it. Read about the project…
Category: Media centre
XBMC #RaspberryPi remote control using a smart phone
Just some quick blogs this morning as I want to get onto my Picorder wiring! Here’s a blog post at Slice of Raspberry Pi in which you can set-up XBMC (in this case the RaspBMC flavour, but I imagine it…
RasPi.TV reviews the FLIRC USB IR dongle for #RaspberryPi
The FLIRC is a programmable USB dongle that allows you to use any infrared remote you’ve got lying about with a Raspberry Pi media centre. This includes XBMC, OpenELEC, RaspBMC and possibly XBian. Alex over at RasPi.TV has reviewed it. Read…
XBian launch 1.0 Beta 1 for #RaspberryPi
XBian, one of the XBMC distros, has just announced their first Beta release. You can read more and download the distro from here. You can also update from the last alpha if you prefer.
#RaspberryPi Mini Media Centre is beauty in a box
Tim Richardson showed off his mini media centre at the recent Cambridge Raspberry Jam. He’s now started up a blog about his experiences and projects with the Pi. Here’s his post on the media centre. The whole thing is powered…
Use the command line to play videos on the #RaspberryPi
Matt, at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a great little guide to using omxplayer to play videos from the command line. As he points out, this is a great way of playing videos that you’ve recorded from the camera module. Read…
Review of Rasplex for #RaspberryPi
Matt at TechMadeEasy.co.uk has written a very positive review of Rasplex, the new kid-on-the-block for Raspberry Pi media centre users. Read the review now
Build your own Google TV Using #RaspberryPi, NodeJS and Socket.io
Donald Derek has blogged a fantastic tutorial that shows you how to create a Google TV-alike interface to the Raspberry Pi. Read all about it here Update: The last time I tried to visit the blog, it was down, so here…
#RaspberryPi Ghetto Blaster in a suitcase
Tarek Ziadé from Mozilla has created an 80s-style ghetto blaster using a Raspberry Pi, an aluminium suitcase and some in-car speakers. His solution for powering it involves a 12V lipo battery, which is very neat. Read more here
Control your home theater with a #RaspberryPi and Pebble Watch
Alex Bain has written a guide to creating a home theatre control system using a Raspberry Pi, a Pebble Watch and an Android Phone. Not enough time to go into more detail – Read more here