OK so putting node-RED on the raspberry pi was almost as easy as getting it onto my computer – see previous post here. I started with the occidentalis distro from adafruit – and to install node.js itself I needed to use different package to match the pi wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb but apart […]
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Tweeting with Node-RED via a mqtt broker
Having had a wonderful weekend at Wuthering Bytes, I decided to try and install the fabulous Node:RED tool and try to use it with mqtt to tweet the light level. Firstly Node-RED depends on node.js, so I installed node.js via Chris Lea’s ppa – he seems like the right sort of person to package up […]
Read More…Fixing Technics 1210’s
A friend of mine rang up the other day and asked if I could help fix a Technics 1210 record deck. For the uninitiated, these are the decks that DJ’s around the world use (or used to use) for mixing old fashioned shellacs (sorry, records). Now you may think that playing music by spinning an […]
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