Author Archives: Andrew

Streaming Subsonic in higher quality at lower bitrates on Vortexbox

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Andrew

My primary music library is in lossless FLAC format, which Subsonic, by default, transcodes to mp3 for streaming to PC’s and mobile devices. I’ve always used a two-step transcode for this as FFmpeg doesn’t always handle FLAC files as well as … Continue reading →

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BBC micro:bit Modified tilt sensor in Python

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Andrew

This is a modified version of the previous tilt sensor application, this one tidies the code a little for readability, adding more comments and adds the ability to adjust the sensitivity. Enjoy!  

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BBC micro:bit

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Andrew

My son, like many Year 7 students, received his BBC micro:bit this week, a tiny little PCB with a surprising amount of functionality, intended to get kids coding.

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