Dear John, Thanks for these two links, they look really good. Time to get a
Pi3...
Best regards
Tony
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On 9 March 2016 at 14:27, John Sear <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Another couple to throw into the mix:
>
> *PiPresents *https://pipresents.wordpress.com/
> a toolkit for producing interactive multimedia applications for museums,
> visitor centres, and more.
>
> I've installed this to have a play with - but not used in Museum yet!
>
> *OpenFrame* http://openframe.io/
> is a platform for displaying digital art
>
> I only recently found out about this one - so not even tried running it -
> but planning on playing with it for a project next month (so might know
> more by then).
>
> Cheers
>
> John Sear
>
> +44 7962 456 987
> johnsear.com <http://www.johnsear.com>
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> Museum Games Ltd
>
>
> On 9 March 2016 at 09:42, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > We're building some prototype signage tools for the Raspberry Pi - it’s a
> > relatively simple thing that runs a local web server / web page but then
> > calls out to the web for bits of content. Ultimately it’ll be hitting up
> a
> > WordPress install via the WP REST API then caching content locally so we
> > can do stuff like retrieve the days’ events from the museum website and
> > show them on-gallery - that sort of thing.
> >
> > I know some people are doing groovy things with Pi’s in a production
> > environment - particularly Watershed, Bristol Museums - but I’m
> interested
> > in hearing:
> >
> > 1) about any other examples
> >
> > and
> >
> > 2) what experiences there are in how resilient Pi’s are longer term -
> > running day after day. The one I’ve built boots automatically into a
> > fullscreen browser and fetches the relevant page. Then it updates itself
> > every 10 minutes via ajax. I’ve been running it all day for a week now
> > without any issues, and no sign of anything getting hot / tired (this is
> a
> > RPi 3 - super fast!) - but if anyone has experience of whether there are
> > any issues after months of uptime, that’d be good to hear…
> >
> > Oh - related to 2) - what are good solutions for auto booting / shutdown
> > each day?
> >
> > Thanks muchly
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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> >
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