My Other Projects

Here's links to some of my other projects:

• 1957 Seeburg wallbox controlling my Sonos system with a raspberry pi and python
  • this is a Seeburg wallbox, which would usually be in your diner/restaurant booth, and would play music to your booth from a juke box. I used mine to control my sonos music system, using a raspberry pi microcomputer, and an interface board I designed to take the 24v ac signals from the wallbox and convert them to 3.3v logic signals for the pi. I wrote a python program for the pi to take the button presses on the wallbox to send commands to the sonos system. I used the SoCo python library to do this, thanks to the SoCo guys!
  • it controls the volume, skips tracks, pauses / plays, and adjusts volume
  • the Seeburg Wallbox has 200 selections, I configured the code so the first 10 are internet radio stations, the next ten are Sonos playlists, the last 180 are a bunch of my favorite songs.
  • The wallbox labels are made automatically from an excel powerpivot model, linked to a mediamonkey library.
• Sonos remote volume control using Pi Zero & Python
  • This is a little battery portable volume control for the sonos system
  • it displays the current track info and play / pause status for each sonos zone.
  • uses some of the same code as above, but with a quadrature rotary encoder - more responsive, and a better algorithim.
• Canada Learning Code:
  • thanks to my daughter Kelsey, I have started volunteering with this fantasitc organization:
    • https://www.canadalearningcode.ca/
    • I've been mentoring students on HTML/CSS and programming. I know just enough to help out, and at the same time, be dangerous!