Hey All!!!
The PiPlay team and I just launched our Deskcade Kickstarter!!!!
I hope you back it, and to those who have already you kick butt! THANK YOU!
-Shea
Hey All,
Happy Friday!
This weekend is Orlando IX. It’s the first time this event is happening, and they are trying to make it like Orlando’s SXSW. Let’s see if they can pull it off. My coworkers are going to be there representing UCF, while me and some friends are going to be showing off PiPlay, and our custom arcade cabinets.
I recently got one of the Official Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Displays, and it is amazing. I love it. PiPlay looks great on it.
I’ve been working on some prototype cases for the display 🙂
Wish us luck, this weekend is going to be crazy!
-Shea
This weekend has been fun. I got my 2.0″ LCD Display from Adafruit in! It’s an amazing little screen. Bright, Sharp, Colorful. MAME, Quake, NeoGeo games all look great on it. A concern I had was how to power the little screen. It can take 5v – 12v, and the connector is just two bare wires for power.
After testing the screen with a regular power supply, I decided I wanted to see if I could power it via the GPIO power pins on the Raspberry Pi itself. I was concerned about the amperage it would require, but after connecting it to pins 2 and 6 (5v and GND), and powering on the Pi, they both turned on and I was watching Raspbian bootup.
On the Raspberry Pi Forums, gcala contributed a post with a how to on getting Youtube to play from the command line to omxplayer.
Here is a video I took after getting youtube-viewer running on my Pi:
Hope you all enjoy this!
-Shea