Raspberry Pi Zero

[WEBB-TECH]

Saw this earlier

http://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero

Only a tenner. Not sure if it has any use in the radio community but I thought it would be worth sharing anyway just in case it did!

[thewisepranker]

It's actually £4.25 if you only want the Pi.

[Dennis99]

I use mine as an Icecast server pinned to a corkboard playing music around the house with a wifi dongle.

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[MiXiN]

One of my pals is using a Raspberry Pi to view shit loads of TV Stations and is selling them to people for a small fortune. Around £100 a piece last time I checked.

Not sure how it works exactly as all this goes well and truly above my head.

[yellowbeard]

One of my pals is using a Raspberry Pi to view s*** loads of TV Stations and is selling them to people for a small fortune. Around £100 a piece last time I checked.

Not sure how it works exactly as all this goes well and truly above my head.

Its using Kodi/XBMC and a special linux distro to stream channels. There is a tutorial on how its done here:

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http://mymediaexperience.com/raspberry-pi-xbmc-with-raspbmc/

And you can buy a kit for it from satcure:

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http://www.satcure.co.uk

[MiXiN]

One of my pals is using a Raspberry Pi to view s*** loads of TV Stations and is selling them to people for a small fortune. Around £100 a piece last time I checked.

Not sure how it works exactly as all this goes well and truly above my head.

Its using Kodi/XBMC and a special linux distro to stream channels. There is a tutorial on how its done here:

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http://mymediaexperience.com/raspberry-pi-xbmc-with-raspbmc/

And you can buy a kit for it from satcure:

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http://www.satcure.co.uk

If I wasn't short of time I'd get onto this.

Nice one for the links.

On a different note - are you the guy that has various Pirate Radio links posted on the Web? I recently got my hands on one of those Dutch 5W Stentor boards off a friend, and when I googled "5w Stentor" I came across various entertaining reviews and other interesting stuff by yellowbeard which is why I ask.

[RF-Head]

@mixin,
I will PM you about the boards tomorrow
The dutch stentor was designed by my father in the urly 80s
I have a few old pcb's left but it's a VFO
I have made last year a new version the STENTOR 2015 with pll and lcd and planning to make a kit with it but last few months i had almost no time because of moving all the parts from our storage to our shop
now i have some more time and will look in making a kit of the new stentor 2015

[MiXiN]

@mixin,
I will PM you about the boards tomorrow
The dutch stentor was designed by my father in the urly 80s
I have a few old pcb's left but it's a VFO
I have made last year a new version the STENTOR 2015 with pll and lcd and planning to make a kit with it but last few months i had almost no time because of moving all the parts from our storage to our shop
now i have some more time and will look in making a kit of the new stentor 2015

RF Head,

Look forward to hearing from you re' these driver boards as it's been a while that I've wanted one now. Lol.

Just been in contact with my friend and he said he bought a few 5W Stentor PCBs off you, but the boards themselves are different to the ones shown on the net by Yellowbeard and various other links on the Internet.

Do you have a component layout for the PCB?

The right hand side of the board is easy to work out where the components go (2n2219, MRF237, etc) but the left hand side is difficult to work out as there are no component placement markings.

[yellowbeard]

And I am guilty as charged.

[pjeva]

Here's something I found. It could solve issue with audio quality, and also enable software generation of mpx and rds signal. Maybe you already know for it....

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Also, complete magazine could be found here:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi43.pdf