linux

Last.fm Player - Project Videos

Nathan Broadbent

Apr 29, 2010 — 1 min read

My Compaq Evo T20 running tinycore linux, playing shell.fm, displaying track info via lcd4linux on a Pertelian X2o40 USB LCD display.

Uses music software Reaper to play audio and generate MIDI events. Midi events are sent to the 'output' of MIDI Yoke, which patches them to a software emulated MIDI input. Used the MIDIOX COM wrapper with Visual Basic, to monitor the MIDI Yoke input and trigger http downloads on certain MIDI note events. Wrote a sinatra server in Ruby that sends signals to the K8055 USB board (via my Ruby driver wrapper) for certain http requests.

LoRa Mailbox Notifications

I bought this awesome device that sends me notifications whenever we get a new letter or package in our mailbox. I bought it from the creator's online store: MailBox Guard Wireless IR SensorPricelessToolkitPricelessToolkit The design is also open source and available on GitHub: GitHub - PricelessToolkit/MailBoxGuard: Lora

3D Printing Log

I bought a Bambu Lab X1-Carbon 3D printer in March 2023. I'm extremely happy with this 3D printer and highly recommend it! It's more expensive than entry-level printers, but it's a very high quality machine and is very reliable. I can focus on designing

Migrating from Hugo to Ghost

I haven't been able to write any blog posts since I got an M2 MacBook. I was using an old version of Hugo and got it running in a Docker container, but the Docker container only ran on my old Intel Mac. It was too painful to update

Organizing 1,700 Resistors in a Ring Binder

I used a ring binder and card sleeves to organize 1,700 through-hole resistors. You can use this PDF to make your own ring binder: * Download E24_Resistor_Kit_Folder.pdf * Liquid and SCSS that was used to generate the PDF The template code and generated PDF document are released

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LoRa Mailbox Notifications

3D Printing Log

Migrating from Hugo to Ghost

Organizing 1,700 Resistors in a Ring Binder