Posts Tagged ‘Raspberry Pi’
Pi Pandora over the Pond
A friend of mine recently returned from working in the US for 3 years, where he’d got to like listening to Internet radio using Pandora. He wanted to get things set up so that he could listen to Pandora on his kitchen stereo. Challenge #1 – be in the US Pandora uses IP geolocation to […]
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Tags: OpenVPN, Pandora, proxy, Raspberry Pi, RPi, SSH, tunnel
Review – BeagleBone Black
I first came across the BeagleBone when Roger Monk presented at OSHUG #18 in April 2012. It was easy at the time to write it off as too expensive and too underpowered – the Raspberry Pi was finally shipping and the lucky first 2000 already had their $35 computers whilst the rest of us waited for […]
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Tags: BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black, comparison, GPIO, physical compute, projects, Raspberry Pi, raspbian, review, Ubuntu
Shiva Iyer at Packt Publishing kindly sent me a review copy of Instant OpenELEC Starter. It’s an ebook with a list price of £5.99, and I was able to download .pdf and .mobi versions (with an .epub option too). It’s also available from Amazon as a paperback (£12.99) and for Kindle (£6.17). The book is […]
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Tags: ebook, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, review, RPi, XBMC
OpenELEC dev builds
Over the past week or so my automated build engine for OpenELEC on the Raspberry Pi hasn’t been working. XBMC has grown to a point where it will no longer build on a machine with 1GB RAM. Normal services has now been resumed, as the good people at GreenQloud kindly increased my VM from t1.milli […]
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Tags: cloud, GreenQloud, iaas, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, XBMC
I’ve been very happy with the results from my Raspberry Pi controlled water bath for sous vide cooking, but I knew that the control loop could be improved. Past runs show fairly continued oscillation: I’ve been keeping track of the average power for my control loop, which has been coming out at 22%. So i […]
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Tags: 434MHz, bias, control system, DS18B20, mains, PI, PID, python, Raspberry Pi, remote control, RPi, Sous vide, water bath
Needy Jelly Babies
Two years ago I took my son along to Maker Faire UK in Newcastle (which is where I grew up). This year the whole family came along. Whilst I queued with the kids for the ‘laser caper'[1] my wife went along to a talk by Clive from the Raspberry Pi Team. I can’t blame her […]
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Tags: audio, dependency, github, GPIO, jelly baby, mpg321, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, Rob Bishop, RPi, wifi
Sous Vide Roast Beef redux
Last week I cooked tri-tip with my Raspberry Pi controlled water bath. This week I used a much more ordinary cut, some topside from my local Co-Op supermarket that had cost me just over £5 for 1.6kg. Some time ago I stopped buying this kind of meat because if you cook it per the instructions […]
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Tags: beef, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, Sous vide, water bath
Best roast beef ever
I cooked tri-tip with my Raspberry Pi controlled sous vide water bath today. It came out brilliantly – on a par with the best Chateaubriand I’ve had (which for the record was at Casa Ferlin in Zurich – well worth a visit if you’re ever in that neck of the woods). The meat I got […]
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Tags: beef, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, Sous vide, tafelspitz, tri-tip, tritip, water bath
Sous vide steak
After making my Raspberry Pi controlled hot water bath over the weekend I’ve been itching to try it out. I got my chance this evening when cooking some steak for dinner. I get my steaks mail order from Donald Russell, so they come shock frozen and vacuum packed – so the ‘sous vide’ part is […]
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Tags: Raspberry Pi, RPi, Sous vide, steak, water bath
Temperature control for a sous vide water bath is a popular application for hobbyist microcontroller kits, with lots of well documented projects out there. My favourite is the Sous Vader – if only for the attention to detail in the decal on the box. I’ve been planning my own for a little while, and got […]
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Tags: 434MHz, control system, DS18B20, mains, PI, PID, python, Raspberry Pi, remote control, RPi, Sous vide, water bath
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