I owned a broken 15″ dell laptop and wanted to prevent all of it from going to landfill. I decided to convert it into an electronic display calendar.
So I removed the screen, purchased a control module, a Raspberry Pi Zero W, 3D printed cases for both and glued it all onto a piece of MDF. All mounted to the wall.
The Raspberry Pi boots immediately, opens a chrome browser automatically and launches my dashboard in full screen. The dashboard was created using Dakboard (free), which is connected to my google calendar and my google to-do list. It also displays an RSS news feed.
This project involved the following skills and techniques;
- Recycling Electronics
- 3D Print Design
- 3D Printing
- Raspberry Pi / Raspbian
- Scripting
- Headless Display
