Screenly’s Raspberry Pi-Powered Platform Shifting To New IoT Version Of Ubuntu Linux

May 18, 2016 by Dave Haynes

Ubuntu has long been one of, if not the, go-to variants of the Linux operating system for digital signage media players, but that’s been …

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Projects: SoCal University Fixes Digital Signage Budget Problem And Starts Course In Process

April 27, 2016 by Dave Haynes

  Students at Southern California’s  University of LaVerne have turned a problem into a small business – developing a low-cost digital signage solution for the campus …

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UC View Debuts Raspberry Pi 3-Powered Digital Signage Player

April 4, 2016 by Dave Haynes

I’ve heard widely varied opinions about the ability to run a digital signage application on a Raspberry Pi – the super-cheap UK micro PCs …

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More Powerful, IoT-Ready Raspberry Pi 3 Announced

February 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes

A new IoT-ready version of the Raspberry Pi micro PC has been announced – still priced at just $35 but touted as more powerful and …

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Projects: Illinois Church Lights Up Simple, Logical, Nice Digital Signage Network

December 9, 2015 by Dave Haynes

Here’s a great example of how digital signage projects – no matter how modest – can succeed because the people or person behind it …

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Raspberry Pi Gets Custom Manufacturing

October 28, 2015 by Dave Haynes

Web traffic tells me there are a lot of people out there interested in using Raspberry Pi micro-computer boards as digital signage players, since it …

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Orange Pi From Shenzhen Undercuts Raspberry Pi Price By Half

September 8, 2015 by Dave Haynes

The busiest post day to day on this blog – by a considerable margin – is one listing the various options to make digital …

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Combining Raspberry Pi & Windows 10 IoT To Make A (Very) Basic Digital Sign

July 31, 2015 by Dave Haynes

Microsoft’s developer site has a post and details up about how people determined to spend as little as possible on signage software and hardware could …

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UC View Adds Raspberry Pi 2 Support

May 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes

The LA software firm UCView announced last year its support for the initial Raspberry Pi micro PC, and its developers have now followed up …

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And Now There’s A $9 PC That Makes A Raspberry Pi Seem Pricey

May 11, 2015 by Dave Haynes

An Oakland, California start-up called Next Thing is touting a new single board computer that makes the $35 Raspberry Pi seem expensive. The Chip will, …

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Raspberry Pi Married To E-Paper, And They Make Digital Sign

April 15, 2015 by Dave Haynes

Here’s what I THINK is the first Raspberry Pi to be directly married to an e-paper display to make a rudimentary digital sign – …

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Raspberry Pi 2 Gets Free Windows 10 Licensing – What That Means In Digital Signage

March 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes

Microsoft has confirmed its new Windows 10 operating system will be made available free to developers working on the low-cost Raspberry Pi micro PC board. …

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