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As pi2 have processing power of 900MHz it can generate upto 250Mhz radio frequency. I have run fm_transmitter on pi2 it was working but only with one song(star_wars.wav) and code was in c++.

Does anybody know how to create radio wave with pi2 in python?(simple code)

How fast i can toggle the gpio pin to generate below digital signal?

dg

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  • The most famous example of this is probably "pifm" which has a python port, e.g.: icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/…
    – goldilocks
    Feb 2, 2016 at 20:10
  • checked pifm it do not work with pi2 :(
    – koolwithk
    Feb 2, 2016 at 20:11
  • @editinit Hi! I encoutered the same issue with pifm and my RPi 2 and looked around for alternatives which leads me to your thread. Unfortunately your "fm_transmitter" link is broken... Could you update it if possible? Sep 5, 2016 at 21:02
  • @Marine1 fm_transmitter wasn't working properly so i used this github.com/ChristopheJacquet/PiFmRds , fm_transmitter link is below in lwr20 answer.
    – koolwithk
    Sep 8, 2016 at 11:53

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According to: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2999977/opensource-subnet/how-to-turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-an-fm-radio-transmitter.html

these radio transmitter projects work on the Pi 2:

Sadly neither of them are in python.

However you could run them from python using the subprocess module. https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html

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Make Magazine created a raspberry pi pirate radio coded in python using a gpio pin and some wire. I haven't tried this project before myself, but since it is from Make Magazine, we can assume in functions properly. This project can be found on this GitHub repo.

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For python the pigpio library is probably the best for what you want to accomplish. There is many python examples on the pigpio website. check it out

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