The Sweden-based Blicko team have just launched a Kickstarter to support their hardware/software project which is a jukebox-style music playing system. Here’s what they say on their page: Blicko began when we noticed a problem in the way music is…
Category: Audio
New distribution for the #RaspberryPi – RuneAudio
RuneAudio is a free and open source software with a specific objective: to transform an embedded platform (a cheap, silent and low-consumption mini-PC) into an Hi-Fi digital music player. It offers a lot of features and aims to be easy…
Create your own J.A.R.V.I.S. with Jasper and the #RaspberryPi
If you’ve ever wanted to replicate Tony Stark’s J.A.R.V.I.S., you can be well on your way with this project. Shubhro Saha and Charlie Marsh from Princeton University have developed an always-on voice-recognition-and-response system called Jasper. It recognises it’s own name…
Learn to play the piano with a #RaspberryPi
Shane Snipe, and his dad, have built a system to teach you how to play the piano and they’ve used a Raspberry Pi to do it. They’ve rigged up a series of servos which control some laser pointers which then…
Wolfson audio card now available for the #RaspberryPi
As previewed on this site in November, the Wolfson Audio card for the Raspberry Pi is now available from Element 14. It has the following features: 3.5 mm jack (4-pole) for a headset/boom mic combination for gaming or VoIP applications…
Grid piano practice machine uses a #RaspberryPi at it’s heart
Marc “Nostromo” Resibois has taken a Pi and a Novation Launchpad and created a beautiful musical instrument. Read more here.
Use a piezo buzzer to create sound with the #RaspberryPi GPIO
Ben Miller has written a great beginners’ article about hooking up a small piezo buzzer to the Pi’s GPIO pins to simply create a sound. He’s using C to do it, which is a shame as I think Python would…
Internet radio project using a #RaspberryPi made out of discarded tech
Giles Booth (and his kids) have taken an old USB audio input/output box and made an internet radio out of it. He’s now added a button to it to change the station. Read more about the project here and here.
Automated CD ripper with a #RaspberryPi
Martin O’Hanlon, who normally can be found messing around with Minecraft Pi, has written some software to aid you in ripping CDs in an automated way. Check out his blog for instructions
ScratchGPIO gets support for the Pibrella #RaspberryPi add-on board
Simon Walters (@cymplecy) has been beavering away at his ScratchGPIO software. This software brings GPIO support to Scratch so that you can use LEDs and, now, expansion boards from the popular visual programming environment. The latest board to receive support…