[Swansea Hackspace] TechHub Digital signage/Info Display System

[djdavies83]

If 5.4" is just big enough.....

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=301040341670&alt=web

£7.49 inc delivery! Here is a video of an earlier model I own...

Joytech 5.6" TFT with aux AV in: http://youtu.be/D8HSE793vW0

I think it has the same size screen(ish), I'm about to order one of the these for my own project, I'll bring it in for viewing if your interested.

We could possibly 3d print a new casing which would incorporate the pi.


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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Gerrit Niezen <gerrit.niezen at gmail.com> </div><div>Date:16/08/2014  09:51  (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: Justin Mitchell <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> </div><div>Cc: hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk </div><div>Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] TechHub Digital signage/Info Display System </div><div>
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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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