Graham Morrison’s article from Linux Format issue 169 is now available online at TechRadar. Read it here. It contains details of which UVB-T dongle actually works!
Category: Media centre
Wall Box SONOS Controller – a #RaspberryPi 1950s Jukebox
Steve Devlin has been working on converting a wall-mounted 1950s juke box so that it works with a Raspberry Pi. His blog contains all the details about how he did it. Read his blog
Vintage Radio to internet jukebox with a #RaspberryPi / @Raspberry_Pi
Dominic Buchstaller has been busy. He’s taken an old German vintage wireless radio from the 1950s, stripped it out, refurbished it and installed a Raspberry Pi inside it. You can see the whole project including enough instructions to do it…
Adding an audio amplifier to your #RaspberryPi
Conor O’Neill needed to increase the volume level from the Raspberry Pi so that he could hear media being played whilst exercising. So he experimented with various circuits and eventually came up with something that worked. Read more here
SqueezeBerry gives the Logitech Squeezebox a new lease of life with the #RaspberryPi
Although Logitech have now terminated the Squeezebox product, a blogger called Emmaanuel has created a Raspberry Pi-based music player out of one. Read how he did it here.
Fixing output resolution from your #RaspberryPi
Sometimes the Raspberry Pi just gets it wrong. In particular when it comes to display resolutions, this can be very inconvenient. Bertrand LeRoy has been investigating lots of different threads on the Foundation forums to find a correct answer to…
Digital photo frame / media panel with a #RaspberryPi
Andy Jagoe has written an Instructable for creating a photo frame or media panel with a Raspberry Pi and an LCD screen. Read the Instructable
Reactive ambient lighting for your television with a #RaspberryPi
Oscar Andersson has created a Raspberry Pi version of Philips’ Ambilight that uses ambient lighting to enhance your television experience. Best explained with the video posted on the Foundation’s site (see below). More information can be found at the Raspberry Pi…
Play HTML 5 Videos and Youtube videos on the #RaspberryPi… maybe
Lin Jojen has written a tutorial on how to play HTML5 and YouTube videos on the Raspberry Pi. However, please be aware that several of the comments on the blog post indicate that the method isn’t always successful. Read more here
New version of OpenElec released from the #RaspberryPi
The Foundation has done a nice piece on the release of the latest and greatest version of OpenElec, the XBMC distro. Read more information here or get the OpenElec distro from their site.