That's right.. the type provider everyone has been waiting for, the choose your own adventure type provider! This is completely pointless and silly, something I just wrote this afternoon.  I had various discussions with Phil Trelford about this and finally decided to do it. Unfortunately none of the real CYOA books are out of copyright and there appears to be very little in the way of other free ones that I can  find.  I did however find this one rather silly story on smashwords which is free, it's not qui[...]

Introduction This article will introduce Last-Fi – an F# powered internet radio player that uses a Raspberry Pi and Last.Fm services.  The motivation behind this work was to both build something fun and useful for the Raspberry Pi that interfaces with various pieces of hardware, but can also show off some features that F# is great at within a hardware context. The result is Last-Fi – a highly asynchronous and stable music player.  It is based around Last.Fm, but because it uses MPD to play music it only re[...]

I got a Pi for my birthday! A great excuse to get back into electronics. After unsuccessfully struggling to get the F# compiler to build under the stable version of mono for Debian Wheezy, I realised that F# programs work just fine if you build normally from a windows computer, throw in FSharp.Core.dll in the /bin/ and copy it over. So I have a setup now where I work with VS2012 / Sublime and sync the executable and libraries with WinScp (or indeed the Scp plugin for FAR Manager). Next up is to get access [...]