I mentioned in one of the last posts about the clock that it ocasionally lost its GPRS connection after being moved to somewhere where the signal wasn't of brilliant quality. To try and rem [...]

"The quotation marks mean you can't get done for copyright infingment" - Anon.

My girlfriend is obsessed with the Harry Potter franchise. For Christmas, [...]

So, all the parts are made as a prototype. At this point I had about two days before I was skipping town to spend christmas with my family (as was my girlfriend) - so I needed to get this finished fast. Please forgive the lack of photos of the builds!

Putting together a circuit:

I didn't want to have to u [...]

I've lumped all the code for each part of the project together on this page. It's no great elegant work but it gets the job done!

Raspberry Pi:

As I mentioned earlier - all the programming on the Raspberry Pi is done in Python. Sure - it has quite a serious overhead of being interpretted, especially o [...]

Initially, I decided that a stepper motor would be the best choice for the project. I needed something that could rotate through a full 360 degrees in a constant direction (clockwise) and tha [...]

The RPi GPIO Python Libraries provide a good way of accessing the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi in Python. There [...]

JASIOHost is based upon the observer model of software design. In order to successfully gather audio data from an Audio Input – one must write a class that is able to handle the data returned – in a similar fashion to how you may handle UI events:

        import com.synthbot.jasiohost.*;