Right, the last article's gone live so it's time for my daily #Hackster round-up - and once again I've been a busy beaver, so if you don't want a ten-toot-thread in your timeline maybe put me on a timed mute... now.

First up is an update to the #Arduino PLC IDE, for the Opta and Portenta Machine Control - bringing support for OTA updates via Modbus TCP, even over a VPN.

https://www.hackster.io/news/arduino-brings-modbus-tcp-over-the-air-updates-to-the-arduino-plc-ide-1-1-0-f5b2c6539b22

#Technology #News #Microcontroller

Arduino Brings Modbus TCP Over-The-Air Updates to the Arduino PLC IDE 1.1.0

New release of the free development environment also simplifies the serial ports on an Arduino Opta, for easier programming.

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A *fantastic* project next, using a #RaspberryPi to stream vinyl records.

Right, okay, that sounds confusing: it captures the audio via a USB soundcard and streams it to AirPlay/Bluetooth speakers... while also capturing it as FLAC to a local database for on-demand playback. Oh, and it fingerprints the audio so it can show the right metadata for each record. Locally.

Yeah, told you it was fantastic.

https://www.hackster.io/news/the-vinyl-streamer-turns-a-raspberry-pi-into-an-automated-record-recognizer-digitizer-and-streamer-6bd649b9dfc8

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The Vinyl Streamer Turns a Raspberry Pi Into an Automated Record Recognizer, Digitizer, and Streamer

On-device fingerprinting lets this clever system recognize a record and stream it, with metadata, to AirPlay and Bluetooth devices.

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@ghalfacree Ohhhhh - I love this idea. My one issue with my vinyl setup is that I can't play one on all of the speakers throughout my house.

@JayLittle Yuo - this is for exactly that use-case (plus preservation with the FLAC copies!)

I've got a Sony turntable with built-in Bluetooth, but that'll only pair to one device - you can't easily do multi-room with it.