{"id":12428,"date":"2015-04-20T14:43:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428"},"modified":"2015-04-20T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T08:45:51","slug":"interfacing-a-vfd-display-to-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428","title":{"rendered":"Interfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Dr Scott Baker has been messing around with VFDs (Vacuum Fluorescent Displays) which emit light directly rather than being backlit like normal LCD displays. He has worked out how to interface such a display with the Raspberry Pi and has blogged about it here<\/a>, including giving a listing of a small Python library you can use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Scott Baker has been messing around with VFDs (Vacuum Fluorescent Displays) which emit light directly rather than being backlit like normal LCD displays. He has worked out how to interface such a display with the Raspberry Pi and has…<\/p>\n

Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","category-programming","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"\nInterfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr Scott Baker has been messing around with VFDs (Vacuum Fluorescent Displays) which emit light directly rather than being backlit like normal LCD displays. He has worked out how to interface such a display with the Raspberry Pi and has…Read more →\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/recantha\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-04-20T13:43:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.smbaker.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pivfd_assembled.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Horne\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@recantha\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@recantha\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael Horne\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Horne\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c27c4ef2ee1c18b130f1fcd5dcdbb263\"},\"headline\":\"Interfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-04-20T13:43:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428\"},\"wordCount\":64,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.smbaker.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pivfd_assembled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Making\",\"Programming\",\"Tutorials\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428\",\"name\":\"Interfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.smbaker.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pivfd_assembled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-04-20T13:43:30+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.smbaker.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pivfd_assembled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.smbaker.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pivfd_assembled.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Interfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Raspberry Pi Pod\",\"description\":\"Experiences with the Raspberry Pi micro computer and microcontroller\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Raspberry Pi Pod\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cropped-PiPod-Logo-v3.png?fit=800%2C337&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cropped-PiPod-Logo-v3.png?fit=800%2C337&ssl=1\",\"width\":800,\"height\":337,\"caption\":\"Raspberry Pi Pod\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/recantha\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/recantha\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/recantha\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCK4F9blabxzmk8Inzhs8tpg\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c27c4ef2ee1c18b130f1fcd5dcdbb263\",\"name\":\"Michael Horne\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/479778b0677caadde0ceb54c4129804ef674914607e3ed0998808148357d10d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/479778b0677caadde0ceb54c4129804ef674914607e3ed0998808148357d10d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Michael Horne\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Interfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Interfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod","og_description":"Dr Scott Baker has been messing around with VFDs (Vacuum Fluorescent Displays) which emit light directly rather than being backlit like normal LCD displays. He has worked out how to interface such a display with the Raspberry Pi and has…Read more →","og_url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428","og_site_name":"Raspberry Pi Pod","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/recantha\/","article_published_time":"2015-04-20T13:43:30+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.smbaker.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pivfd_assembled.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Michael Horne","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@recantha","twitter_site":"@recantha","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Michael Horne"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428"},"author":{"name":"Michael Horne","@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c27c4ef2ee1c18b130f1fcd5dcdbb263"},"headline":"Interfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi","datePublished":"2015-04-20T13:43:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428"},"wordCount":64,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.smbaker.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pivfd_assembled.jpg","articleSection":["Making","Programming","Tutorials"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428","url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428","name":"Interfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.smbaker.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pivfd_assembled.jpg","datePublished":"2015-04-20T13:43:30+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.smbaker.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pivfd_assembled.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.smbaker.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pivfd_assembled.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12428#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Interfacing a VFD display to the Raspberry Pi"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/","name":"Raspberry Pi Pod","description":"Experiences with the Raspberry Pi micro computer and microcontroller","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#organization","name":"Raspberry Pi Pod","url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cropped-PiPod-Logo-v3.png?fit=800%2C337&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cropped-PiPod-Logo-v3.png?fit=800%2C337&ssl=1","width":800,"height":337,"caption":"Raspberry Pi Pod"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/recantha\/","https:\/\/x.com\/recantha","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/recantha\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCK4F9blabxzmk8Inzhs8tpg"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c27c4ef2ee1c18b130f1fcd5dcdbb263","name":"Michael Horne","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/479778b0677caadde0ceb54c4129804ef674914607e3ed0998808148357d10d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/479778b0677caadde0ceb54c4129804ef674914607e3ed0998808148357d10d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Michael Horne"},"url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?author=1"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2RsaV-3es","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15680,"url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15680","url_meta":{"origin":12428,"position":0},"title":"NEC creates large displays with Raspberry Pi compute module","author":"Michael Horne","date":"12 October 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"NEC have just announced\u00a0that they are to produce large (>=40\") displays with an integrated slot for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. The big news here is that they are planning to use the as-yet-unreleased-publicly Compute Module 3 (take a look at the image above, click to embiggen - that\u00a0is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Compute Module"","block_context":{"text":"Compute Module","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Rasp_pi_Compute_mod.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Rasp_pi_Compute_mod.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Rasp_pi_Compute_mod.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21051,"url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21051","url_meta":{"origin":12428,"position":1},"title":"Find the current location of the International Space Station and display it on an e-ink display with a Raspberry Pi","author":"Michael Horne","date":"7 May 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Graeme over at Raspberry Connect has created this nifty little project using a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a small e-ink display from SeeedStudio. Using an open API, he grabs the position of the ISS and then plots it as a red dot on a world map (with a red\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Making"","block_context":{"text":"Making","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?cat=50"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SpaceStation-Tracker-Raspberry-Pi-Zero-E-ink-Display.jpg?fit=600%2C255&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SpaceStation-Tracker-Raspberry-Pi-Zero-E-ink-Display.jpg?fit=600%2C255&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SpaceStation-Tracker-Raspberry-Pi-Zero-E-ink-Display.jpg?fit=600%2C255&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20784,"url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20784","url_meta":{"origin":12428,"position":2},"title":"Create a weather station with your Raspberry Pi and an Inky wHAT","author":"Michael Horne","date":"30 January 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Rainer Bunger on Twitter has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a Pimoroni Inky wHAT e-ink display and created a lovely weather station that displays the next 7 days of forecasts.Using various fonts for the text and the icons and programming in Python 3, the e-ink display is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "GPIO boards"","block_context":{"text":"GPIO boards","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?cat=20"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/weather-station.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/weather-station.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/weather-station.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/weather-station.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":18463,"url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18463","url_meta":{"origin":12428,"position":3},"title":"Working with an SSD1306 0.96″ OLED display on the Raspberry Pi","author":"Michael Horne","date":"12 March 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm always on the lookout for cheap electronics on eBay and AliExpress. Following on from my previous tutorial on HD44780 screens, this time, I found a small OLED display. I bought one of these\u00a0from eBay for less than \u00a35 plus postage. It is a 0.96\", 128x64 pixel OLED display. These\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Accessories"","block_context":{"text":"Accessories","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?cat=54"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/oled_demo_sm.jpg?fit=1200%2C809&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/oled_demo_sm.jpg?fit=1200%2C809&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/oled_demo_sm.jpg?fit=1200%2C809&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/oled_demo_sm.jpg?fit=1200%2C809&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/oled_demo_sm.jpg?fit=1200%2C809&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17574,"url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17574","url_meta":{"origin":12428,"position":4},"title":"Connected picture frame is an Internet of Things device running from a Raspberry Pi","author":"Michael Horne","date":"2 September 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Frederick Vandenbosch has taken a Raspberry Pi 3 and an Official Touch Screen and created a 'connected picture frame'. The frame displays pictures which are periodically downloaded from Dropbox and allows the user to 'like' individual photos, thus indicating their favourites. These likes are sent over the Internet to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Accessories"","block_context":{"text":"Accessories","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?cat=54"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/connected_picture_frame.jpg?fit=950%2C713&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/connected_picture_frame.jpg?fit=950%2C713&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/connected_picture_frame.jpg?fit=950%2C713&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/connected_picture_frame.jpg?fit=950%2C713&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2663,"url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2663","url_meta":{"origin":12428,"position":5},"title":"The RaspberryPi Tricorder – the Picorder","author":"Michael Horne","date":"6 March 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This project has been in progress since I first received my Raspberry Pi last July. Until now, I just haven't had the time to record video. The Picorder is a Pi\/Arduino combination taking readings from 2 temperature sensors, a hall-effect magnetism sensor and an ultrasonic distance sensor which it then\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Arduino"","block_context":{"text":"Arduino","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?cat=55"},"img":{"alt_text":"SAMSUNG","src":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/060320131-300x225.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12429,"href":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12428\/revisions\/12429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}