Since my previous post about piCorePlayer, I have replaced 2 of them that were running on a Raspberry Pi 3A+ with a 3D printed case. Raspberry Pi 3A+ with 5″ touch screen, an Adafruit speaker bonnet and speakers. The 3D printed case can be downloaded from Printables.com
Author: Mark Fraser
K1 Max
Last November, after receiving lots of orders for my RSA/ID Holder, I decided that I needed a bigger and faster printer. So I bought a K1 Max from Creality. What took 1 1/2 hours on my previous printer could be printed in less than 40 minutes.
New 3D printer
7 months after buying my first 3D printer – an Ender 2 Pro from Creality – I have upgraded to an Ender 3 V2 Neo.
3D printer update
It has now been a few weeks since buying an Ender 2 Pro and I’m loving being able to design things in FreeCAD and then have them printed out. So far I’ve printed a new handle that incorporates a bearing for the top of the Z axis and changed the supplied Bowden tube for some… Continue reading 3D printer update
3D printing
I bought a 3D printer last week – an Ender 2 Pro from Creality. I have started with a small one so that I can get some experience printing with it before upgrading to a larger model.
piCorePlayer
I have recently replaced my 3 Logitech Squeezeboxes with 3 Raspberry Pis running piCorePlayer. 2 of them are 3A+s and the other is a 3B. Raspberry Pi 3A+ with 7″ touch screen and USB powered Logitech speakers. Raspberry Pi 3A+ with 5″ touch screen, an Adafruit speaker bonnet and speakers. Raspberry Pi 3B with 7″… Continue reading piCorePlayer
Raspberry Pi 3A+ as a weather station
This was my weather station and was powered by a Raspberry Pi 3A+ running Raspbian Buster lite with pywws. Unfortunately the base station kept losing connection with either the weather station or the Pi. So I’ve now replaced it with a Raspberry Pi running weewx that receives data from the weather station sensors using a… Continue reading Raspberry Pi 3A+ as a weather station
Android WordPress app
Test to see how well the WordPress app for Android works.
Learning to program with Python
I asked our daughter the other day if she wanted to learn how to do some programming and she said “yes, she would”. I haven’t really done much programming since BBC BASIC over 20 years ago, so I decided to go for Python. This book Python For Kids seemed to be the ideal book as… Continue reading Learning to program with Python
Sonisphere Knebworth
This view will always remind me of going to Sonisphere Knebworth. On the way back from getting some shopping in nearby Stevenage, we came across this modified sign.