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L Break Into Program
@breakintoprogram.co.uk

Going through some old posts on my blog and discovered this from nearly 15 years ago. I worked as the software development director for a digital advertising company, a glorified title as I was the only developer. Needless to say he was convinced and he let me expense one.

breakintoprogram.co.ukFinally! Gotten myself one of those Raspberry PIs - L Break Into Program, 0:1Well, after a couple of months of waiting, my Raspberry PI has finally arrived, courtesy of the kind folks at Farnell. I must admit that I’m now a bit like a mule with a spinning wheel; bereft of any ...

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Tim Holyoake
@timholyoake.uk

My original Pi1B was still doing service as a samba bridge to my Sonos music library up until around 3 months ago when it finally failed. A Pi2B has now taken this task over!

L Break Into Program
@breakintoprogram.co.uk

I wrote some proof-of-concept code on it based upon the hello_video example to play MP4s and, whilst I didn't get the opportunity to deploy this model of Pi, I did end up deploying on the Pi 2 and 3 a few years later. Still got a handful of Pi's from back then and I apparently own the code IP now.

L Break Into Program
@breakintoprogram.co.uk

The code includes: - MS SQL Server database files - A Linux file server backend - A Windows web server frontend - Video playout software The playout software also includes a touchscreen wayfinder framework for shopping centres (got the code for all of them) and touchscreen/label printer drivers.

L Break Into Program
@breakintoprogram.co.uk

Oh and some random stuff, like code to pull data from those 2-line bus shelter displays, older Flash and Director versions of the wayfinder, and a load of supporting files. We supported some pretty big malls including the Trafford Centre, Bluewater, Lakeside, and so on.

L Break Into Program
@breakintoprogram.co.uk

The company was always cash strapped and near the end there was a pattern of being "made redundant" just before Christmas and then mysteriously being "rehired" in the New Year. Quite stressful really. We collaborated with Clear Channel for a while, which was great. Lovely bunch of folk to work with.

Trevor Toms
@trevor-toms.bsky.social

Just completed a project (for fun) to use a Pi Zero 2W to act as a wifi bridge between an Android tablet and a Zoom L6Max mixer desk. The Pi's are great little beasts and still just about cheap enough to use for fun tasks.