Author: ktinkerer

AIY Project with Home Assistant Commands

ktinkerer | June 28, 2018

I started using Home Assistant a while ago and I find that it integrates well with my existing Node-RED / MQTT setup. It’s possible to control Home Assistant

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Play Radio on New Version of Raspberry Pi AIY Project

ktinkerer | March 22, 2018

If you are using a version of the AIY Project version aiyprojects-2017-09-11.img or newer you will have found that the mods I wrote to play radio no longer

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News Headline Reader for the Raspberry Pi AIY Project

ktinkerer | January 25, 2018

Since the BBC took down the news feed I had been using to listen to news headlines I’ve missed this function. So I’ve put something together to replace

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How to Update to the New Version of the Google AIY Project and Write Basic Mods

ktinkerer | December 20, 2017

A new version of the Google AIY projects API was released in September. This is the version included in the Raspberry Pi image starting with aiyprojects-2017-09-11.img. This version

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Communicating with a Raspberry Pi from an Arduino using Node-RED

ktinkerer | October 4, 2017

I wanted to add some sensors to a Raspberry Pi but I was quickly running out of GPIO pins, luckily I had some spare Arduinos so decided to

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Podcast Player for the Raspberry Pi AIY Project

ktinkerer | September 19, 2017

I’ve added a podcast player with pause, resume and play a random episode to my MagPi Raspberry Pi Google AIY Projects box. The code for the podcast player

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Play BBC Radio on the Raspberry Pi AIY Project UPDATED!

ktinkerer | September 19, 2017

Using the new version of the AIY Project and don’t have an action.py file? Use this mod instead. UPDATE!: I’ve made a massive update to this to use

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List of Mods for Raspberry Pi AIY Project

ktinkerer | September 18, 2017

I keep finding great mods for the MagPi Raspberry Pi Google AIY Projects box so I thought I’d start listing them all in one place (mainly for me,

3D Printing

3D Printing – A Beginners Experience of Building an Anet A8

ktinkerer | July 12, 2017

I’d been considering buying a 3D printer for a while but even the cheapest ones were more than I wanted to spend on what would essentially be a

3D Printing

Adding Octoprint Progress to a Conky Desktop

ktinkerer | July 11, 2017

This uses the MQTT plugin so you will need to have an MQTT broker setup on your system. Install the Octoprint MQTT plugin and set it up according