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Making MusicPi: Amazon Echo Music Streamer

Stream your local music library to Amazon Echo for FREE!

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Making MusicPi: Amazon Echo Music Streamer

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Raspberry Pi 3A+
×1
LED (generic)
LED (generic)
×4
Resistor 221 ohm
Resistor 221 ohm
×2
USB stick
×1

Software apps and online services

Raspbian
Raspberry Pi Raspbian

Hand tools and fabrication machines

3D Printer (generic)
3D Printer (generic)
Laser cutter (generic)
Laser cutter (generic)

Story

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Custom parts and enclosures

MusicPi - laser and print files

2 lid parts to cut and the bottom to print out

Schematics

LED schematics

How to connect LEDs

Code

Code snippet #1

Plain text
Running the script at boot
sudo chmod +x /home/pi/lights.py

#then -----------------

sudo crontab -e

@reboot python /home/pi/lights.py &

LED driver

Python
This is a simple script that turns the lights on on boot
#!/usr/bin/env python
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
LedPin1 = 03
LedPin2 = 04
LedPin3 = 19
LedPin4 = 26
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setup(LedPin1, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.output(LedPin1, GPIO.HIGH)
GPIO.setup(LedPin2, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.output(LedPin2, GPIO.HIGH)
GPIO.setup(LedPin3, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.output(LedPin3, GPIO.HIGH)
GPIO.setup(LedPin4, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.output(LedPin4, GPIO.HIGH)

Credits

NotEnoughTech

NotEnoughTech

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I'm Mat I play with gadgets, make new stuff and automate pretty much everything that requires repeating more than once!

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