Month: February 2024

Raspberry Pi 5 Recording

I have been doing some audio recording experiments with the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB for linux audio recording. My setup tested using Ardour, with both a Pisound ($99) audio hat, and the MOTU M2 ($199). I also added an NVME SSD via the PCI bus found on the Pi5. It was super easy to install the OS to the SSD and I am very happy to say that both the Pisound/M2 work out of the box. All while booting to the NVME with a 64bit version of Debian 12 Bookworm. The reason behind this feat is that, by default, the Pi5 now uses Wayland and the Pipewire audio backend.

Disclosure: I believe the lead developer for for Pipewire and Ardour are the same person?

Lastly, get an active heatsink/fan and tweak your fan configuration settings. It’s not that loud and your pi will thank you.

Again I think the Pi5 is going to work great for embedded audio/video applications and after basic testing I think this will work great for my audio projects.

Thanks for your time.
Kit

Connections Museum Seattle

The Connections Museum Seattle, formerly the Herbert H. Warrick Jr. Museum of Communications is a part of The Telecommunications History Group, Inc. and is located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. 

The museum features working Panel and Crossbar electromechanical central-office switches. The Connections Museum also has working Step-by-Step and Crossbar PBX equipment as well as antique telephones, switchboards, outside plant displays, including poles, cables, splicing equipment, tools, and other related communications equipment and machines. The Connections Museum also features a cataloged telecommunications reference library, useful for researchers.

https://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle/

The folks over at the museum make some great YouTube video content fairly often. You should really like it if you are interested in telecommunication history or how things worked .

Please take care of each other.