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Hi, Everyone!
I would like to hear if there is anything involving a project to mirror the software aspect of Mariott's GoBoard. I would like a little insight on how to make such an item with a Raspberry Pi 3 and a touchscreen.

Thanks!

dj_raidar_vip wrote:Hi, Everyone!
I would like to hear if there is anything involving a project to mirror the software aspect of Mariott's GoBoard. I would like a little insight on how to make such an item with a Raspberry Pi 3 and a touchscreen.

A quick search indicates that the Marriott "GoBoards" are 57" touchscreens.

First, catch your touchscreen. The RPF has an official 7" touchscreen. You can probably find others, but they won't connect to the DSI port on a Pi. Other vendors (if you look around) have larger ones, but I haven't seen anything really big. NEC just announced a new line of "smart" displays that will have a connector to take a Pi Compute Module (CM, and intended for the upcoming CM3, and the special NEC 16GB CM3, aka "CM3-16"), but those won't start hitting the market until next year. There are supposed to be 6 models in the line, ranging from 40" to 98".

For software...pretty much any way you'd program a touchscreen interface. What exactly do you want the system to do?

I'd like it to be with weather, twitter feeds, time and date, and a calendar of events. Any software suggestions?

dj_raidar_vip wrote:I'd like it to be with weather, twitter feeds, time and date, and a calendar of events. Any software suggestions?

A web browser.

Write a script (e.g. with python) to update the information you want to show. Write updated information to a CSV file regularly. Read the CSV file using JavaScript and show it with your browser (with images if you want). I guess this is the most practical solution.

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