I previously had posted on how to communicate with an Arduino and display messages on an LCD using python. And I’ve been working on Raspberry Pi as well, setting it as a torrent box.
So I thought of hooking up these two together so that the LCD can display the torrent status. I also added two buttons so that I can scroll through the list of torrents. The Arduino is connected to the RPi via the USB, and the Arduino is powered by an external AV adapter. Initially I thought this will be unsafe, but apparently it is safe to do so (http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,22132.0.html, http://aeroquad.com/archive/index.php/t-1911.html?s=5273633e6fd3970524bf4473996b9f7d) The LCD also displays the current system temperature.
The source code the the python program and the Arduino can be accessed at: https://github.com/slayerjay/RaspberryPi_Arduino
Other Resources:
http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/raspberry-pi-serial-port
Hi Janith,
I recently bought a Raspberry Pi and tried both XBMC and Debian and few Python scripts to grab Gmail and print in the terminal…
But I really like to interfere with HDMI (Video), I want to print top 10 emails on the TV monitor while I watch a movie or something…
I can’t think of a start, pls let me know if you get an idea…
Thanks
Mahesh
Hi Mahesh,
One method that I can think of is to write a small web application (can be easily done with python +web.py) that will pull the emails and show it nicely on a webpage. Then you can open up the web browser, and set it to run full screen and display your email web application.
I have done a similar project to display RPi’s temperature over the web. (https://github.com/slayerjay/RPiWebDashboard)
Some other options are discussed here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=29397
Hope this helps