Autonomous Interactive Radio #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi
An interesting concept — and instructions for how you can try this as well — for putting together a mini-pirate radio station, interactively programmed by the listeners. From Double One Design, via MAKE:
Autonomous Interactive Radio is a project to connect people. It’s a radio station where you and your friends are the DJs, sharing music that you want to hear. By emailing an MP3 file to the radio station’s gmail address, your song is added to a queue to be broadcast on an FM radio frequency.
You can build your own AIR broadcast station with an FM transmitter, the open source AIR software, a Raspberry Pi, a Gmail account, and an Internet connection. The parts of the station costs less than $200 with a 250 milliwatt FM transmitter. This setup will cover a few city blocks. An antenna for the transmitter will increase your range. Download the code here.
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit, be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Have you tried the new “Adafruit Raspberry Pi Educational Linux Distro” ? It’s our tweaked distribution for teaching electronics using the Raspberry Pi. But wait, there’s more! Try our new Raspberry Pi WebIDE! The easiest way to learn programming on a Raspberry Pi.