Mononymous maker “Pepe” has constructed a compact good show on your desk, powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W single-board laptop: the Desk Mate Zero.
“Desk Mate Zero [is] your desk companion that exhibits your favourite footage in a slideshow, time and climate for as much as 10 cities,” Pepe explains of the gadget, which runs via a slideshow of images each 60 minutes or each time the show is touched, offers a full-screen clock, and a location-customizable climate forecast.
The Desk Mate Zero pops a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W right into a 3D-printed housing to create a slick good desktop show system. (📷: Pepe)
Contained in the custom-designed 3D-printed housing, which holds the display at an angle for simpler viewing and offers air flow on the rear to stop overheating, is a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W single-board laptop related to a 7″ full-color touchscreen show. The Raspberry Pi runs the “lite” variant of Raspberry Pi OS, a Debian-derived Linux distribution, and Python scripts that pull down climate and run the show.
The touchscreen is not only for present, both: double-tapping to unlock permits the customers so as to add as much as 10 cities to the climate forecast screens — which embrace present situations, 9 hourly forecasts, 5 each day forecasts, and the time in every chosen metropolis — and to manage the system’s Wi-Fi connectivity.
Supply code for the challenge has been printed on GitHub, with the 3D-print information on Printables — each below the identical Artistic Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Worldwide license.
