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MADE ON EARTH
Have you ever looked at a globe and wondered
what people in different locations might be
listening to on their radios? Radioglobe answers
that by tuning into terrestrial stations from any
location you point to on its surface. Turn the
globe to focus the 3D-printed navigation “yoke”
to a geographic position; its rotary encoders
then calculate the longitude and latitude of the
position, and use them to access the nearest
radio station’s internet broadcast and play it via
a Raspberry Pi.
Creative technologist and prototyper
Jude Pullen (judepullen.com) designed and
built the system for DesignSpark, a hub that
“connects ...