If you work at BSE and this interests you, feel free to stop on over sometime and have a chat, or reach out on LinkedIn if you aren't at BSE! I added a case in the back to make sure no one gets shocked, and it came Tuesday, so I put that on Tuesday night.įor this first post, I just wanted to introduce the project, and share a few screenshots of what I had built. Physical assembly of the it was completed over the weekend. Overall it was a fun little project, and the code was done mostly over some downtime during a weekend and a few weeknights. Some design decisions that I had to make to get it working, and a few the rough spots I had to overcome. I'll be writing a number of posts over the coming weeks about how this was built. Who is your favorite disney princess? Would you rather drink Pepsi or Coke? But the serious goal of this PoC is to get people talking about technology- and my currently low tech non-digital nameplate is out of date.

The screen is a capacitive touch screen, so I added a simple polling application that asks folks random questions. In addition to being a nameplate for my desk, it will be digital signage at my work desk testifying to my undeniable nerdiness. It's a 7' display driven by a Raspberry Pi. This PoC is a nameplate for my desk, which I call a pi-plate. So, I decided to make a Raspberry PI driven kiosk. Before I go all in and try to accomplish any of these, I wanted to build a basic proof of concept. An example of this is a display for some SmartThings sensors I have around the house, another is calendar information by the door instead of the traditional paper calendar we have. I've recently been thinking of a few different projects around my home to build some sort of 'kiosk' to display information.

Git cola raspberry pi