[Swansea Hackspace] Hackspace Digest, Vol 20, Issue 14

Fri Aug 15 12:55:56 BST 2014

If the Pi option is a goer, let me know and we can get some Raspi VESA mounts or whatever is required once monitor mounting is decided, run off the router in clear acrylic.

I can help with any backend server stuff assuming its lamp/wamp, im not so great with python or front-end user interfaces.

In a hacky way (and in no way a requirement for the project) it could be fun to build an extension to it using a Pi camera, and a button next to the screen saying 'im lost', when the button is pressed the pi uses openCV (open source computer vision library) to detect and lookup the persons face, then update the screen to show how to get where they should be from where they are.  Obviously it would only work if people were registered at the door and had a photo taken.  The point is We are a Hackspace, and we could do it just because we CAN do it, what other reason would you need ;)

Best Regards

Graham Owens

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>   1. Re: TechHub Digital signage/Info Display System (Emyr Morris)
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> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] TechHub Digital signage/Info Display
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> Raspberry Pi would be a perfect solution to this 'problem'. They can be
> easily mounted to a screen and networked easily via wifi
> 
> I am about to embark on a similar commercial project for a chip shop to
> display prices, photos of products, community news and that sort of thing.
> Three screens across but turned on their sides
> 
> Ideally you will want a back end system to manage content, as you say on a
> central server, you would probably want information in zones? Will you have
> screens on doors of meeting rooms to show what is happening in the room?
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> If so you will probably want a bespoke database to tie it all together so
> you can display time relevant information per screen/room/zone with generic
> info shown when there is no specific timed info to show... and a simple web
> interface to 'add' information to the screens.
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> Ideally you will want to show text and images and maybe 'sex' it up using
> HTML5
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> If you were not in a hurry I could roll out sections of the code I will
> create for the chip shop which will do 80% of what you will want to do - I
> will have three 'zones'
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> how much of a hurry are you in?
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> There are lots of 'free' systems out there for the Pi - maybe they will do
> the job for you
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> Emyr
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>> On 15 August 2014 11:18, Paul Harwood <paul at harwood-leon.com> wrote:
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>> Hello!
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>> We are thinking of creating a digital display/signage system for TechHub
>> which will consist of:
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>> - Cheap monitors dotted about the building, mounted on walls (lobby area
>> to begin with)
>> - single board computers with wifi
>> - webservers running from some kind of central system that can be updated
>> 
>> Would the hackspace be interested in helping us build it as a project? It
>> would be useful to display stuff when events are running directing people
>> etc.
>> 
>> The rough spec would be:
>> - display tenants rooms floors
>> - display events
>> - lobby, possibly per floor - if the lobby works out
>> - system really easy to update with little or no technical skill
>> - secure (obviously)
>> - cheap!
>> 
>> We were going to buy some signs and stuff, but I thought that was a little
>> silly for a "tech" hub.
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>> It is a pretty urgent requirement, so...any thoughts?
>> 
>> -- Paul
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> Not 'yesterday' but maybe 'next few weeks' But any help would be great! :)
> 
> What other systems do you know of?
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> As for zones, there are:
> - TechHub members/flexi
> - TechHub Event Space
> - Other floors (4th Floor - veequo/fuzmo) and someone moving in on the 3rd floor.
> 
> Is that what you mean by zones or do you mean where the displays will be shown?
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> - lobby
> - lift
> - cafe
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> Cheers
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> -- Paul
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>> On 15 Aug 2014, at 11:29, Emyr Morris <em at preseli.com> wrote:
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>> how much of a hurry are you in?
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>> There are lots of 'free' systems out there for the Pi - maybe they will do the job for you
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