Raspberry Pi - Information Display

[evoloan]

RASPBERRY PI - INFORMATION DISPLAY

I thought ill show off my first project with the raspberry pi. 

 

Items:
Dell 1901FT - Screen (Was Collecting dust in the addict) 0 $

1,5 m of steel wire - thin. (Had some left from hanging pictures) 0 $

Raspberry Pi - 40$

2 screws - Philips head - 0 $

1 old micro usb cord - 0 $

1 usb phone charger - 0 $

1 DVI to HDMI - I stole one from my brother that he had laying around. 0 $

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1. Started removing the bezel and stand from the Dell monitor. 

2. Screwed off two of the USB ports from the screen. And secured the raspberry on the back of the monitor using those screw holes.

3. Used the steel wire from the old stand bracket that was on the back of the screen. 

4. Connected all the cables and installed the microSD card with NOOBs on it. 

5. Once connected I went in to the terminal and followed the setup provided by http://dakboard.com/blog/diy-wall-display/. 

6. When all the lines where implemented in the terminal a simple reboot and I was all set. 

7. Used my power tool to implement two screws in the wall and then I just hanged the monitor up connected the power and Voila! Simple. 

 

It displays Calendar, Weather, Time and Date, And RSS-Feed from local news, and To-Do Lists. And for only 40 $ I think its super fun project to do. 

 

 

[slanensis]

Good job there mate! love the price too! Sheer ingenuity right there. Good job again!

[Granular]

Neat.

If the display has dedicated dimming/brightening buttons, you could wire RPi's GPIO pins to 'press' those depending on ambient light levels.

I would really like to do something similar, but with an e-ink display. Sadly the one actual e-ink monitor I can find is ridiculously expensive.

Although now that I looked again, there's apparently a way to get a Kindle to act as a VNC client. Hmm... I've got a server that's running 24/7 that could host a VM for it to view...