{"id":18187,"date":"2018-02-09T14:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18187"},"modified":"2018-02-09T14:35:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:35:41","slug":"harry-potter-animated-picture-frame-using-a-raspberry-pi-zero-from-les-pounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18187","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter animated picture frame using a Raspberry Pi Zero from Les Pounder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harrypotterframe.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18188\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harrypotterframe.jpg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harrypotterframe.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harrypotterframe.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harrypotterframe.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harrypotterframe.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harrypotterframe.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harrypotterframe.jpg?resize=260%2C195&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harrypotterframe.jpg?resize=160%2C120&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harrypotterframe.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harrypotterframe.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/biglesp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Les Pounder<\/a>&#8216;s wife is a great fan of <em>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban<\/em> (<em>quite so, it&#8217;s my favourite, too<\/em>!) So, Les decided to create an animated picture frame for her starring everyone&#8217;s favourite rogue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pottermore.com\/explore-the-story\/sirius-black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sirius Black<\/a>. He found a cheap picture frame in Dunelm Mill and then took the back off. He then took a Pi Zero and a <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/products\/hyperpixel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pimoroni Hyper Pixel<\/a>\u00a0to drive the animated part of the project and laser cut a nice surround for the screen. A bit of start-on-boot scripting and he had his animated frame all working. Great fun! You can <a href=\"http:\/\/bigl.es\/friday-fun-diy-harry-potter-animated-frame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more on Les&#8217; blog<\/a> and see a video of it in action below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sirius Black Wanted Poster\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S-18sIHr7nU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Pounder&#8216;s wife is a great fan of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (quite so, it&#8217;s my favourite, too!) So, Les decided to create an animated picture frame for her starring everyone&#8217;s favourite rogue Sirius Black. He found&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18187\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18188,"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":[54,20,50,86,51,52],"tags":[165,306],"class_list":["post-18187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessories","category-gpio-boards","category-making","category-raspberry-pi-zero","category-tutorials","category-video","tag-harry-potter","tag-les-pounder"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harry Potter animated picture frame using a Raspberry Pi Zero from Les Pounder - 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=18187\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harry Potter animated picture frame using a Raspberry Pi Zero from Les Pounder - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Les Pounder&#8216;s wife is a great fan of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (quite so, it&#8217;s my favourite, too!) 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They interview Les Pounder, who is heavily involved with Picademy and is also a writer of good repute. They also cover various other topics including GPIO Zero and the recently-released Senior Pi operating system. 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Timothy Reese has written a tutorial over at Adafruit in which he hacks together some off-the-shelf components and creates a rather nice picture frame. He then uses Chromium in kiosk mode to display the animated GIFs. Take a look at the tutorial\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Graphics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Graphics","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?cat=67"},"img":{"alt_text":"raspberry_pi_anim","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/raspberry_pi_anim.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":20266,"url":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20266","url_meta":{"origin":18187,"position":5},"title":"New Raspberry Pi 4 8GB version released today! Plus new 64-bit operating system","author":"Michael Horne","date":"28 May 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Exciting news from Raspberry Pi this morning. There is now an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4. 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