Blog Posts with Tag Pi Plate

In my previous posts, I've introduced my pi-plate project and described how I set up a Raspberry Pi to work as a kiosk. In this post, I will briefly describe the application I built. I put the application I wrote up on Netlify to see, and the source code for the application is on GitHub. A link for the running application is here. The main application utilizes a few different technology stacks to build and deploy. These are: Angular Nginx Docker This blog will focus on the…

In my first post, I gave a brief introduction to the pi-plate. In this post, I want to talk about the work it took to get my Raspberry Pi to run as a kiosk. When I reference ‘running my Raspberry Pi as a kiosk’, I generally mean: The pi displays a window or application without any of the window manager chrome. A user cannot exit or switch to another application. The application running in the kiosk starts up automatically on boot. I had to read a lot of blogs to put this all…

I've recently been thinking of a few different projects around my home to build some sort of "kiosk" to display information. 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. Before I go all in and try to accomplish any of these, I wanted to build a basic proof of concept. So, I decided to make a Raspberry PI driven kiosk. This PoC is a nameplate…