A ten-year-old article about the click wheel provided some invaluable functionality insights and allowed him to write code to control it in C.

He even recreated the iPod’s user interface in software, right down to the font. Guy seems amazed at having created a Spotify streaming client that lives inside, and can be controlled by, an old iPod case from 2004.

Guy likes using Raspberry Pi when planning a specific task because he can “program to do one thing really well… and then I can leave it somewhere forever”, in complete contrast to his day job. He first used Raspberry Pi for its static IP so he could log in remotely to his home network, and later as a means of monitoring his home during a renovation project. Guy’s career spans mobile phone app development, software engineering, and time in recording studios in Boston as an audio engineer, so a music tech hack makes sense. Installing the C-based haptic code on Raspberry Pi Zero, and connecting Raspberry Pi, display, headers, and leads

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