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Ho Ho Ho Pi
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 8:30 am
by moosepr
You may know, im no stranger to custom PCB's with screens and a pi all packaged together. So i had the crazy idea of making the PCB look a little like a Christmas decoration.
Now my design skills are weak, so the best I could muster was a bauble. It is currently just set to play Elf when it boots, but it could technically do anything (retropie on the tree anyone?)
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on a side note, i have a bunch of spare boards if anyone wants one
just drop me a PM
Re: Ho Ho Ho Pi
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 9:46 am
by Lpoolm
Nice!
Happy Christmas everyone!!
Re: Ho Ho Ho Pi
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 10:12 am
by YaYa
Really nice Moosepr !
So what did you use in this project, i see two what seems to be speakers ? Maybe piezzo buzzers ?
Where is the charging board ? Under the battery ?
And the screen driver ? On the front side under the screen ?
Thanks for sharing this with us. Ho ho ho
Re: Ho Ho Ho Pi
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:07 pm
by rodocop
haha, super cool!
Re: Ho Ho Ho Pi
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:52 pm
by moosepr
YaYa wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2017 10:12 am
Really nice Moosepr !
So what did you use in this project, i see two what seems to be speakers ? Maybe piezzo buzzers ?
Where is the charging board ? Under the battery ?
And the screen driver ? On the front side under the screen ?
Thanks for sharing this with us. Ho ho ho
Thanks for the nice comments
You are correct, the piezo makes an appearance here, to provide token audio.
There is no charging board here, you have to take the battery off, and plug it in to another board to do any charging. There is also no protection or safe shutdown.
There is also no driver board needed for the screen, it is soldered straight onto the PCB and talks to the pi directly (like mintypi)
So yeah, a quick and dirty hack job
Re: Ho Ho Ho Pi
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 10:11 pm
by YaYa
I see no dirt here, just ingenuity!
Re: Ho Ho Ho Pi
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 2:49 pm
by Pentium
moosepr wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2017 8:30 am
You may know, im no stranger to custom PCB's with screens and a pi all packaged together. So i had the crazy idea of making the PCB look a little like a Christmas decoration.
How do you make it so that it plays one video over and over?
I want to do something similar, but I'm stumped on how to get something like this adafruit video looper
https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi ... r/overview running on a SPI screen.
Re: Ho Ho Ho Pi
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:03 am
by moosepr
Pentium wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2017 2:49 pm
moosepr wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2017 8:30 am
You may know, im no stranger to custom PCB's with screens and a pi all packaged together. So i had the crazy idea of making the PCB look a little like a Christmas decoration.
How do you make it so that it plays one video over and over?
I want to do something similar, but I'm stumped on how to get something like this adafruit video looper
https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi ... r/overview running on a SPI screen.
To be fair, i didnt really need it to run over and over. The battery would only last 2 hours, and the film about the same, so its not really needed in my case.
essentially all i did was run mplayer
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apt-get install -y mplayer
mplayer -nolirc -vo fbdev2:/dev/fb1 thisIsMyVideo.mpg
the video file was converted on my pc so it was the correct size, to save the pi doing too much work
