This weekend I’m upgrading the site to one of Laughing Squid‘s Cloud Hosting plans.
You may notice some weirdness with the blog and forums as the new DNS records propagate and I fix minor migration issues.
The good news is, if you can see this post, you’re looking at the new site!
David Nichols made this awesome wireless twitter display by combining a hacked Asus WL-520gU wireless router with a Sparkfun serial-enabled LCD display. The router is running the same OpenWrt distribution I used for my Wifi Radio project, plus a USB thumbdrive that provides some additional flash storage space. I really like the custom laser cut base that holds the LCD display and the router!
For more pics and info, check out David’s flickr set for the project.
via Make: Online – Tweetster – Wireless tweets display
A few people have asked me about the playlist that ships with the interface.sh script for my Wifi Radio project.
I’ve actually modified my playlist slightly, so here’s what I’m currently listening to. Click on the links to open each station in Winamp or iTunes.
http://slayradio.org/tune_in.php/128kbps/listen.m3u
SLAY Radio is dedicated to playing original and remixed tunes from the Commodore 64. Regular live shows that feature guest DJs who select and play their favorite C64 tunes, plus occasionally some stuff from the Amiga and other platforms. SLAY Radio inspired me to dust off my old sid and mod files. Does it get any better than this?
This cool banner shows what song is currently playing. Click to visit their site.
http://scfire-dtc-aa06.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1046
An NPR affiliate based in Los Angeles, KCRW has a wide variety of music and talk radio programming. They also transmit on FM 89.9MHz.
http://www.bassdrive.com/v2/streams/BassDrive.pls
Bassdrive plays jungle and drum and bass (see dnb). Lots of live shows and guest DJs. One of my favorites.
http://www.di.fm/mp3/soulfulhouse.pls
This group of six stations are hosted by Digitally Imported, which offers a wide variety of electronic dance music at both free and premium (higher quality/bitrate) paid membership levels.
http://www.di.fm/mp3/lounge.pls
http://www.di.fm/mp3/breaks.pls
Di.fm’s breaks station. Another one of my favorites.
http://www.di.fm/mp3/electro.pls
http://www.di.fm/mp3/futuresynthpop.pls
http://www.di.fm/mp3/progressive.pls
http://somafm.com/play/groovesalad
Hosted by San Francisco-based soma.fm. Plays “A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves.” Like many of the others on this list, this station has been around forever. It’s probably one of the first Shoutcast stations I ever tuned into, and it’s still going strong almost a decade later.
Of course, if you don’t like these presets or just want to see what else is out there, check out shoutcast.com. You can browse or search through hundreds of other streaming radio stations featuring every possible genre of music you could think of.
As part of the nationwide DTV transition, on Friday, June 12th, Sutro Tower ceased all analog television transmissions by powering down the three main analog TV antennas atop San Francisco’s iconic three-legged broadcast radio tower.
This change is reflected by their status page, which now shows the top of the antenna mostly dark with the exception of a few FM radio stations, as shown below. The DTV mast in the center of the tower is providing temporary digital television service during the tower’s massive DTV conversion project.
According to Gene Zastrow, Sutro’s general manager, the existing analog television antennas will be replaced with new primary DTV antennas over the next several weeks. This could make for some great photo opportunities if the weather is decent, as I expect that given the size of the antennas there will be some serious equipment being used on and around the tower.
Newegg.com is currently offering the Asus WL-520gU for $34.99 after rebate. This is the lowest price I have seen in a while, so if you’ve been debating picking one of these up to play with, it might be a good time to buy.
The WL-520gU is the very hackable wireless router I used in my Wifi Radio project. It’s also the router used in LadyAda’s Tweet-a-Watt and the subject of a talk I gave this year at NOTACON.
It’s interesting to note that Newegg recently added the words “DD-WRT Open Source support” to the product title, so obviously they are aware of how many people buy these routers just to toss the stock firmware and throw on DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWrt, or the oleg.wl500g.info firmware instead.
ASUS WL-520gU Wireless Router with All-in-One Print Server/ DD-WRT Open Source support
