Author: sroot
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Santa-pi, a music player for a charity fundraising float
This is a Raspberry Pi. A small, powerful, low cost computer. I’m writing this blog post from the pi you see in the photo. It is very slow compared to my laptop but it works and is in front of me now, whereas my laptop is a whole 2 meters away on another desk. This…
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Solution sharing: My small business phone system, 4 lines, 6 extensions, and costs less than £10 per month
plus call costs of about 1p/minute Short version: Get SIP trunks from Dial9.co.uk**, get a small Virtual Machine running at DigitalOcean*, install IncrediblePBX, connect to your own phones. Where we start from: BT Openreach are turning off analog copper phone lines and moving everyone to an all IP (Internet Protocol) system. It’s called SOGeA (Single…
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Batch qr code generator in python
I needed to generate a lot of sequential QR codes for work. After a little searching I found a Python module that generates QR codes so all I had to do was work out a small python script to generate each code and save the image. https://www.roots.uk/qr/001 as 001.pnghttps://www.roots.uk/qr/002 as 002.png and so on. Having…