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This is the best I managed to get out of it in the past - you can hear the half second delay between pressing a button and hearing the sample.
Also, anyone wants to book me for any singing gigs? 😂
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This is the best I managed to get out of it in the past - you can hear the half second delay between pressing a button and hearing the sample.
Also, anyone wants to book me for any singing gigs? 😂
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A little bit more info about the hardware:
I attached a Pimoroni Pico Inky Pack and LiPo Shim to a Raspberry Pi Pico W.
A 400mAh LiPo battery is stuck to the Pico with double-sided tape.
To be actually useful in the field I'd really need to make some kind of case - and even then I'm not sure how well an E-ink display fares in the Spanish sun.
Also, the software is currently pretty ropey, and eventually runs out of memory, crashing the device.
Fun little project though otherwise...
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A little bit more info about the hardware:
I attached a Pimoroni Pico Inky Pack and LiPo Shim to a Raspberry Pi Pico W.
A 400mAh LiPo battery is stuck to the Pico with double-sided tape.
To be actually useful in the field I'd really need to make some kind of case - and even then I'm not sure how well an E-ink display fares in the Spanish sun.
Also, the software is currently pretty ropey, and eventually runs out of memory, crashing the device.
Fun little project though otherwise...
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This weekend I finally reassembled my vintage radio-turned preset drum machine (which I dubbed the #RadioRhythmAce) with added PCM5102-based line out and servo-based rhythm dial.
As I also kinda finished my modded Radio Shack delay, I had to try them out together.
Behold the completely unrehearsed/improvised/one-take #DubItUpSunday jam. 🔈 🎶
To hear the full jam with shoddy MS-10 bass line check out
https://yewtu.be/8P9Ky0wRUqI
or
https://diode.zone/w/kJaRF5UPUAneGiyeQSDoPe -
This weekend I finally reassembled my vintage radio-turned preset drum machine (which I dubbed the #RadioRhythmAce) with added PCM5102-based line out and servo-based rhythm dial.
As I also kinda finished my modded Radio Shack delay, I had to try them out together.
Behold the completely unrehearsed/improvised/one-take #DubItUpSunday jam. 🔈 🎶
To hear the full jam with shoddy MS-10 bass line check out
https://yewtu.be/8P9Ky0wRUqI
or
https://diode.zone/w/kJaRF5UPUAneGiyeQSDoPe -
I nearly bought an overpriced PCM5102 DAC on Amazon, as I wanted to experiment with a decent quality line out for my radio.
Then I remembered I still had a #Pimoroni PHAT DAC somewhere.
Thanks to @gadgetoid's brilliant https://pinout.xyz I had it hooked up to my Pico in no time, playing a modified #CircuitPython script by @todbot.
Here I'm switching between headphones plugged into the PCM5102 and a MAX98357 DAC hooked up to a speaker.
Rubia was not impressed! 🐈
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I nearly bought an overpriced PCM5102 DAC on Amazon, as I wanted to experiment with a decent quality line out for my radio.
Then I remembered I still had a #Pimoroni PHAT DAC somewhere.
Thanks to @gadgetoid's brilliant https://pinout.xyz I had it hooked up to my Pico in no time, playing a modified #CircuitPython script by @todbot.
Here I'm switching between headphones plugged into the PCM5102 and a MAX98357 DAC hooked up to a speaker.
Rubia was not impressed! 🐈
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Definitely!
Atm I'm still at the "playing around with several options and libraries" stage, particularly for the web radio receiver side of things, so it may be a little while before I come up with anything "complete" and bug-free.
If you're super eager you can check out the code in its current state here though: https://gist.github.com/axwax/4939d98b1b761018e374f5e78212d51f
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Definitely!
Atm I'm still at the "playing around with several options and libraries" stage, particularly for the web radio receiver side of things, so it may be a little while before I come up with anything "complete" and bug-free.
If you're super eager you can check out the code in its current state here though: https://gist.github.com/axwax/4939d98b1b761018e374f5e78212d51f
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I'm slowly getting somewhere with that board and now have a @radiofreefedi client with metadata working in #Arduino on the #ESP32.
This is actually grabbing data from the new #NowPlaying API, rather than metadata from the stream itself, so I could include time, artist link and Fedi address as well.
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I'm slowly getting somewhere with that board and now have a @radiofreefedi client with metadata working in #Arduino on the #ESP32.
This is actually grabbing data from the new #NowPlaying API, rather than metadata from the stream itself, so I could include time, artist link and Fedi address as well.
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Tonight I've been playing with using a servo to revive the vintage radio's station dial and turn it into Radio Rhythm Ace's rhythm selector display.
NB: I only programmed in a few rhythms, and they are subject to change.
Also, note to self: Next time EAT before creating the dial - it's Merengue not meringue! 🍙 👨🍳
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Tonight I've been playing with using a servo to revive the vintage radio's station dial and turn it into Radio Rhythm Ace's rhythm selector display.
NB: I only programmed in a few rhythms, and they are subject to change.
Also, note to self: Next time EAT before creating the dial - it's Merengue not meringue! 🍙 👨🍳
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While there's still a fair bit to be done I thought it's time for a sneak peek at the latest incarnation of the ancient radio:
The Radio Rhythm Ace is a preset drum machine, which so far features 3 rhythm variations, 3 sound sets (Ace Tone Rhythm Ace, Roland Rhythm 77 and Korg Mini Pops) and a mute button for bass drum, snare and cymbal, plus volume and tempo control.
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While there's still a fair bit to be done I thought it's time for a sneak peek at the latest incarnation of the ancient radio:
The Radio Rhythm Ace is a preset drum machine, which so far features 3 rhythm variations, 3 sound sets (Ace Tone Rhythm Ace, Roland Rhythm 77 and Korg Mini Pops) and a mute button for bass drum, snare and cymbal, plus volume and tempo control.
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Slight update to the ancient radio:
I had a go turning it into a standalone @radiofreefedi player, using https://moodeaudio.org/.
While I reverted to a mono speaker, the sound quality is actually much better now, with no more interference, even when I do connect to it via Bluetooth (which is also still possible).
So far I've implemented a volume knob which doubles as a Play/Pause button (it's an encoder), but hopefully I can expand on functionality a bit more in the future.
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Slight update to the ancient radio:
I had a go turning it into a standalone @radiofreefedi player, using https://moodeaudio.org/.
While I reverted to a mono speaker, the sound quality is actually much better now, with no more interference, even when I do connect to it via Bluetooth (which is also still possible).
So far I've implemented a volume knob which doubles as a Play/Pause button (it's an encoder), but hopefully I can expand on functionality a bit more in the future.
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When I just received #Pimoroni's Pico GFX Pack I just had to have a go at displaying @[email protected]'s now playing metadata.
My initial inspiration came from @[email protected]'s RGB matrix version at https://octodon.social/@mikesheldon/109800654967812982 , and I heavily borrowed code from @blitzcitydiy's #MastodonAPI CircuitPython experiments at https://mastodon.social/@blitzcitydiy/109360738427088845 .
Code will follow ASAP.
If you haven't yet, check out @[email protected] and its stream at https://radiofreefedi.net/
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When I just received #Pimoroni's Pico GFX Pack I just had to have a go at displaying @[email protected]'s now playing metadata.
My initial inspiration came from @mikesheldon's RGB matrix version at https://octodon.social/@mikesheldon/109800654967812982 , and I heavily borrowed code from @blitzcitydiy's #MastodonAPI CircuitPython experiments at https://mastodon.social/@blitzcitydiy/109360738427088845 .
Code will follow ASAP.
If you haven't yet, check out @[email protected] and its stream at https://radiofreefedi.net/
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And here is a quick sound demo of the ancient radio turned bluetooth speaker.
It won't win any awards for sound quality, but is better than I expected. Plus,#RubiaTheCat approves too!
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Last weekend I was planning to finally tidy the code of my Mastodon timeline E Ink viewer.
Instead I spent most of my time redesigning its looks, and then obsessively watching the federated timeline on it!
I did eventually manage to pause and cobble some shareable code together to maybe inspire someone to take things further:
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Last weekend I was planning to finally tidy the code of my Mastodon timeline E Ink viewer.
Instead I spent most of my time redesigning its looks, and then obsessively watching the federated timeline on it!
I did eventually manage to pause and cobble some shareable code together to maybe inspire someone to take things further:
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Today I had another play with the #MastodonAPI:
My @[email protected] Zero W is connected to a #Pimoroni Inky Developer E Ink display.
A #Python script then grabs the latest media posts either from my own, or from the public timeline.
The image is then displayed inside the TV, while its ALT description is scaled in size to be shown inside the speech bubble.
The buttons allow to navigate between posts and media attachments.
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Today I had another play with the #MastodonAPI:
My @Raspberry_Pi Zero W is connected to a #Pimoroni Inky Developer E Ink display.
A #Python script then grabs the latest media posts either from my own, or from the public timeline.
The image is then displayed inside the TV, while its ALT description is scaled in size to be shown inside the speech bubble.
The buttons allow to navigate between posts and media attachments.
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I've been thinking about better (and especially consistently) tagging my own content too, going forward.
My latest idea was to tag e.g. my own music #MyMusic to differentiate it from others' posts that I would simply tag #music.
Like that I could get a feed of just my music, and similarly I could have #MyMakes, #MyGoats etc...
Unfortunately the tag loses its CamelCase and so do the features hashtags on my profile page, so that's not really ideal either. :thinking:
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Today I had some spare time to play with the #M5Stack CoreInk E-ink display and the @openmeteo weather API.
In addition to the weather forecast it is displaying the current time, although that might not be viable as far as power consumption goes.
We'll see if it's still running tomorrow...
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This weekend I had a play with my new #Pimoroni Inky Developer on the #RaspberryPi.
Of course my first test was a #NowPlaying widget displaying my latest #scrobble.
Slight overkill: I'm using #OpenCV to adjust the perspective of the artwork (shoddily).
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Just had a little play with [email protected]'s interpolation code. It's not the highest of frame rates, but otherwise works very well!
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Given the impending demise of the #DarkSky API I started looking for alternatives and had a play with @openmeteo, a nice and easy to use #OpenSource weather API.
In this test my #RaspberryPi Pico W updates its #Pimoroni Inky Pack every 10 minutes in #MicroPython.
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After a long time I had a play with my #RaspberryPiPico MIDI to 4x CV interface in #MicroPython.
Apart from tidying up the circuit board a little I added an OLED display to visualise the ADSR envelope settings in real time.
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Here's another #RaspberryPi Pico experiment, dedicated to my UK friends suffering under the current heat wave.
No Wifi this time, but a BME680 and colour LCD screen to display the current temperature in style.
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I had a bit of a play with the #RaspberryPi Pico W and the #Pimoroni Pico Inky today.
So far I got it to connect to my server, grab the time from there (button A), display this week's tasks from Trello (B) and load a custom image (C).
There is lots to do before it becomes useful, but I'm still quite pleased how far I got in an afternoon/eve (mostly thanks to Pimoroni's great examples).
Apologies for the video quality - it was getting a little late!
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While I am waiting for my new #RaspberryPi Pico W to make it through customs I started converting my Pico-based MIDI to 4xCV adapter from #MicroPython to the unofficial #Arduino Core.
I have a proof-of-concept working, but there is still lots to figure out!