Category Archives: Engineering

Connecting the Wolfson Sound Card to the Raspberry Pi3

Posted on March 10, 2018 by webmaster

I’m quite a fan of the Wolfson (later Cirrus) sound cards for the Raspberry Pi – they offer great value for money compared to some of the competition. Most of the audio cards available for Pi’s offer a DAC only … Continue reading →

Posted in Engineering, Linux, Music, Streaming | 5 Comments

How great companies lose control of their reputation.

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Andrew

This is a bit of a vent, a hopefully cathartic post to seal a week of somewhat farcical interaction with a company I really like. I’m hoping that in addition to releasing the utter frustration I’m currently feeling, it will … Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Customer Service, Engineering, Google | 2 Comments

Building a new Home File Server (Part 2 – Software)

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Andrew

As mentioned in Part 1, my exisiting server is using Mandriva as the base OS for all the other services I run. The reasons for this are largely historical – it was the first Linux OS I really used as … Continue reading →

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