[Swansea Hackspace] TechHub Digital signage/Info Display System

[Gerrit Niezen]

IMHO Justin's solution is probably the easiest and cheapest way to go,
depending on where you source your TVs/monitors from. ModMyPi has a VESA
mount for £2.99 (case sold separately):
https://www.modmypi.com/modmypi-raspberry-pi-case-vesa-mount

However, I did come across this beautiful design on Hackaday this morning:
http://hackaday.com/2014/08/15/pivena-the-open-source-raspberry-pi-case/

The design files are open source, so we can modify it as necessary. The
corners are 3D-printed and the panels are laser-cut plywood. A good reason
to get a laser cutter for the space, right? ;)
It looks like the 7" displays can be sourced of eBay for around £30-£40.


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Justin Mitchell <
justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 11:18 +0100, Paul Harwood wrote:
> > We are thinking of creating a digital display/signage system for TechHub
> which will consist of:
> >
> > - 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
>
> If its for TV sized displays, then off the top of my head I would
> suggest an RPi (or similar cheap computer) in a VESA mount box connected
> to the HDMI and USB ports on the back of each screen.
>
> On the RPi run a minimal install, with a full-screen web browser running
> in kiosk mode, pulling web pages from a unique directory on the central
> web server.
>
> You can then write whatever complexity of setup you like on the central
> server.  you can even start with just static html files dropped into
> each of the directories, and build up to whatever kind of complex
> management setup you care to spend the time and effort to develop.
>
> Minimal effort to setup the individual screens, mostly just
> configuration and installing a few browser plugins.
>
> It scales to any number of screens, as you give each a unique name and
> location to pull from.
>
> The displays will show anything you can make a web browser display, in
> as fancy a manner as you care to design.  Anything from static html
> pages with a javascript page reload, to complex animated html5, or
> videos.
>
>
>
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