![]() ![]() It may ask for your desktop password this is just verifying that you want to erase and write this SD card.Īfter the image is written to the SD card remount (Eject and re-insert) it to your computer. If you accidentally select, say, an external hard drive that is plugged into your computer, the next step will erase that hard drive. IMPORTANT: Make sure you select the SD card. Then select ‘Raspberry Pi OS Lite (32-Bit)’. Click ‘Operating System’ and select ‘Raspberry Pi OS (Other)’. We are going to use a different OS than the default. Insert the SD card into your computer and open the Raspberry Pi Imager. There are other options for this, but the Raspberry Pi Imager is the easiest in my opinion. I’ll explain a little later on how to move the videos onto the Pi. Let’s move on to the next step while the videos encode. When it is done you can move the ‘encoded’ folder over into your thumb drive. It will take some time, so be patient! Do not close this terminal window, and keep your computer from sleeping while it runs. The videos will be placed in a new sub folder called ‘encoded’. The script will loop through all of the video and encode them one by one. Open terminal, navigate to the folder (cd /path/to/the/folder) and run the script with: sudo python encode.py Download my encoding script and place it in the folder next to your videos. Once you have ffmpeg installed (you should probably restart your computer), collect all of your videos into a folder. Check out their GitHub page for more info. There are plenty of guides out there for installing FFMPEG. If you don’t know what FFMPEG is, then you probably don’t have it installed. First we need to install FFMPEG onto your computer if it is not already installed. I’ve written a convenient script that will automatically encode all of the videos in a folder to the proper format. There are of course a hundred ways we could do this. It’s great for an endless number of things, but video encoding is not one of them. The Pi Zero is a single-core computer with minimal processing power. Other codecs would be better/smaller, but support of codecs on the Pi is limited with the player we are using.Īlso I should mention that the videos should not be encoded directly on the Pi Zero, unless you want to wait until the year 2050 before you can watch them. Basically, the videos must be encoded into the H264 format with a height of 480 pixels. The videos need to be encoded into a specific format and put the onto a thumb drive to transfer them to the Pi later. This could take some time so it’s best to this start early as well. We should start encoding the videos before we go much further. Micro Push Button Switch - Alternative - Alternative 2 I have not tested the new model screen and have received reports that it does not work with this build guide.ġK Trim Potentiometer - Alternative - Alternative 2 The manufacture has replace with a different model. IUniker 2.8 inch 640x480 TFT Screen - The original screen has sold out. Raspberry Pi Zero W - (Without header pins! This is important!) I earn a small commission from each purchase, so buying through these links help me cover my time making this guide-at no cost to you! Consider it one back scratching another, or something like that. Head over here for the new and improved build guide! I have found a new screen and created a new build guide for that screen. The iUniker screen is no longer available! But fear not. Here is a bill of materials that should cover the entire build process. Please, PLEASE do not built these and sell them, and definitely do not sell them with copyrighted material on them! If you find this guide helpful and want to buy me a coffee: The entire project, including print time, takes about 14 hours to complete. Advanced users can get their speed-read on. I believe you can do it though, so if you are a beginner, scroll slowly. The guide is aimed at all skill levels, but admittedly a few parts are more intermediate than beginner. It might sound intimidating, but stick with me and it can be fun! The TV is built with a Raspberry Pi, running Linux. The only thing you can’t buy is the enclosure, which needs to be 3d printed. Below you will find a list of all the parts you will need. By the end of this guide you will have your very own tiny TV, with power and volume control. This guide will walk you through printing, building, and coding a small TV that will play videos (that you provide) at random. Like the television in the ancient days before the internet, you just turn it on and watch whatever it gives ya. The videos are always ‘playing’, even when the screen is off. I wanted to recreate the ‘always on’ random nature of television, in a tiny desktop format. This project was born from a childhood spent in front of a TV, playing with Legos. What is it? A working desktop TV that plays the Simpsons on loop. ![]()
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