Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by ilvyanyatka

ilvyanyatka — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 00:48:42 GMT

Thank you for these series. I am looking forward for them.

I want to upcycle an old telescope, so it can automatically focus on the celestial object. I really that it will also adjust position if object is getting out of focus.

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by littlebrowndog

littlebrowndog — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:05:33 GMT

I’m planning to Upcycle five rotary phones to provide accompanying audio for an art exhibition. The plan is to have each phone ‘house’ the stories of one family which relate to the images I’ve created from vintage photos and Lino prints.
I’m really excited to learn how to do this myself instead of outsourcing.
Bec

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by simont.arts

simont.arts — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:25:06 GMT

Hi, I'm planning to upcycle an old "Filodiffusione". It was a way used in Italy in the 70s and early 80s to broadcast radio via telephone line. The case is aestetically wonderful for me, so I plan to empty it and transform it in a synthesizer.

I have yet to decide which open source synth project to use as an engine, between the ones that use Arduino and/or RasPi, but I have already in mind how to repurpose knobs and buttons to a "controller" for the engine.

I also plan to add a display. Internal speaker will probably need to be changed because of old impedance standard.

Simone

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by hobantech

hobantech — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 21:51:10 GMT

I live in the desert and lack of water for gardens is a problem. The irrigation controls available are fairly rudimentary. If one has a major leak there is no way to find it except for visual spotting. This cost me thousands of dollars last year from a cryptic broken pipe. I am building a raspberry pi contoller that allows measuring volume of water and soil moisture, cutting off the system and sending an alarm signal if there is a major leak, stuck open valve, stuck closed valve, reduced volume (the flow sensor), and a soil moisture sensor associated with each valve line. A system that can do this costs many thousands of dollars, but this system would cost only hundreds of dollars, and save money by maintaining soil moisture at the optimal level, and letting the operator of the irrigation system know if there is a leak or a clog. I am modifying an old controller and the associated valves to add soil moisture and water leak control to the system.

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by bksutherland

bksutherland — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:14:52 GMT

My vintage upcycling project involves sustainability. In this case removing the tape deck of a boom box and incorporating a ESP8266 a SiLabs digital tuner and graphene capacitor energy storage. Capacitors charge much faster than batteries and they don't wear out. Interested in your book!

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by cbohra00627

cbohra00627 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 07:46:32 GMT

Hello sir, I am really excited to attend your webinars. I think it's a great opportunity to learn very interesting things and I am quite fascinated to listen you.

I want to upgrade an old radio into a modern music system with a screen. It will be able to play music, volume control, few music settings, will be able to play radio. It will show the playlist on a screen. It will also contain an audio jack. In short, it will be able to do all the things which a modern medium size music system can do. I think I will be needing a raspberry pi for that. And I think I already have some components which can be used in this project. I am thinking to use some of the components like volume knobs, buttons etc. from the electronic things I have collected since my childhood. Also, if I get the pi, I will be able to make it a wifi access point and can control it wirelessly, maybe through a mobile app. Thanks for this opportunity.

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by navadeepganeshu

navadeepganeshu — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:01:00 GMT

Hi,

I am inspired and curated on your idea of giving a modern touch to vintage stuff. Moreover, presenting projects and webinars here at the community.

My vintage upcycling will involve upcycling this old Philips radio from 90's. I don't remember this thing working since 8 years and kept it with the thought of repairing/upgrading it by

giving modern look. My plan is to upcycle this vintage radio using a Raspberry Pi -

>> I would like to retain the tuning bar, knobs and using analog inputs to pull in the values to RPi for switching channels and volume.

>> Would like to retain the speaker, power supply circuitry and adding a USB stick plug and play audio feature by using ready USB ports and audio output in RPi.

>> I tested this circuit and power supply works very fine. There is uncertainty in audio processing and probably that's fried out.

>> Additionally, I am planning to interface these big Philips speakers with audio output of RPi and put this into my car to drive long ways with good vintage music feel ;]

Let me know what you think about this or your suggestions. Eagerly looking forward to attend your webinars and hopefully, they will help me understand more and make this idea work quickly and easily.

Thanks,

Navadeep

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by parasquid

parasquid — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 15:50:29 GMT

Looking forward to the webinar!

I have a few old cookers that still work, but now I have some fancy rice cookers that are automated and even temperature controlled. One thing I thought of was maybe giving them another lease at life by having the automation done via pi or arduino.

And here's something the fancy rice cookers don't do: sous vide.

Here's my (mostly manual) attempt at it:

With a pi or an arduino, it should be possible to do some PID control of the cooker via a relay and have a thermocouple serve as feedback. Then maybe a small water pump to make sure the water temperature is consistent.

The great thing about upcycling old appliances is that most of them don't have fancy digital control boards, so it is super easy to add your own.

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by redcharly

redcharly — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 19:54:04 GMT

This is an old tube turntable that was given to me by a neighbor about 40 years ago. I would like to use a Raspberry Pi to make an "alternative" audio circuit. I would like to leave the analog tube part unchanged and use the Raspberry (together with some operational amplifiers and a bunch of other components) to carry out the digitization of the pre-amplified audio, the conversion to digital, the remote control, the streaming on the local network and above all engine control.

In fact, the turntable had a mechanical selector to obtain 16, 33, 45 and 78 revolutions per minute but it was made with leather washers and over time it has deformed in an unrepairable way. I should therefore make a precise and stable speed control.

I haven't had time yet to focus everything and prepare a draft of the project but I think it could be a great challenge for my free afternoons!

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Isn't it incredible that with just one tube, a few capacitors, and a few resistors you could make an amplifier capable of making people listen to music and dance?

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by Jan Cumps

Jan Cumps — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:17:22 GMT

Thank you!

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by phoenixcomm

phoenixcomm — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:26:39 GMT

I would like to upcycle my Fuel Load Indicator, as this unit has no digital I/O and was sealed, I had to break my first rule "Do No Harm" and cut it open

And this is where it stalled! You will please notice the BNC jacks for capacitive probes and I would like to up-scale the indicator to have a CAN interface with CANaerospace as the protocol.

Inside there are thee PCBs (Power, CPU, Display) sadly the CPU has anti-debug so you can't look at the codebase. So only usable thing left over is the display board has two (2) HDSP-2131TXV each display has 8 chars 5mm high of 5 x 7 chars each and has a 30 pin head connector and they can be interfaced with a parallel interface.

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by moi8765

moi8765 — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 19:31:11 GMT

For sometime now I have been thinking of what to do with the old water filter in our garage which is based on Reverse Osmosis(RO). We are not unheard of the fact that RO is unable to purify water sufficiently which is why we shifted to an RO-UV water purifier some 15 years ago.

The mechanism of water purification is fairly simple with just a UV LED lamp in addition to an RO purifier. I plan to incorporate a UV LED lamp in the existing water purifier to make an affordable water purifier based on the Raspberry Pi. The water quality would be monitored using a TDS sensor I used in an agricultural IoT project previously and the valves allowing flow of water and the lamp would be controlled by the Pi so as to save on power.

The water quality would be monitored via a cloud dashboard made on Ubidots IoT platform which would be interfaced with a NodeRed webapp with web hooks to generate mobile notifications for refilling the water in the tank. Telegram would be used to get messages. I am also thinking about routing a water pipe from the kitchen supply which would be controlled by inserting a solenoid valve and a pump regulated by the Pi. However, this would involve significant changes in the structure itself for which I would have to take external help. Therefore, this part of the project is currently on hold.

Regards,

Moinak

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by hugohu

hugohu — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:06:27 GMT

I actually have 2 ideas:

I have an old alarm clock I'd like to upcycle using an Arduino, that way I can add much more features to it.

I also have an old handheld gaming device I want to upcycle with a Raspberry Pi and screen and Retropie.

re: Vintage Upcycling with Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Part 1: Pi Rotary by mfetting

mfetting — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:01:24 GMT

I have a old crank telephone that I want to set up to respond to a verbal command, such as "Operator, what time is it?" and it will respond with the current time. It would not be difficult using a raspberry pi with google voice command. The difficulties is in making the modifications without making major modifications to the unit.

Raspberry Pi

Google Voice Hat

Microphone (replace the original) - INMP441

It would also be nice to have the bell setup to ring as a alarm/timer.