The username by default is pi with a password of raspberry. After a reboot the RPi will take a few minutes to resize the root and then it will ask you to login. I chose to expand root partition to fill SD Card, changed the keyboard layout to us, changed my timezone to Edmonton and changed start desktop at boot to no. There is a little wizard at the beginning that walks you through a few simple startup options.

At midnight the slideshow is halted, the RPi is rebooted and the cycle starts over.Īfter you have a fresh install of raspbian wheezy on your SD Card, pop it into your RPi and boot it up. When the RPi is turned on it boots up, deletes all jpg’s and png’s in the directory /home/pi/deviant/, downloads the daily deviations from deviantart, deletes any that aren’t a jpg or png (gifs and other files don’t work yet) and begins a slideshow using the framebuffer. In saying this, if you know of a better way to get this job done, by all means leave me a comment as I would love to hear your ideas.

I am by no means an expert and this method is probably not the best way to achieve the end result. I’ve really been piecing together bits of commands that I have found all over the web. This solution relies on a few bash scripts, and this is my first experience making them. I would just like to clarify a few things first. So I’ve come up with a fairly simple way to do this all without ever starting X. This gave me the idea of having a piece of art hanging on the wall, with a nice wooden frame, that actually downloads new art everyday and cycles through it. One of those digital picture frames that cycles through a bunch of pre-loaded jpgs of your friends and family. I’ve seen a few people contemplating using the Raspberry Pi to power a photo frame for the living room. After a little trial and error I’ve found an interesting application for it that I wanted to share. You obviously won’t be doing some of the CPU intensive tasks you would be used to on your PC, but its a great way to tinker and learn and maybe find a great practical use for it along the way. With a $35 dollar price tag, the RPi is a surprisingly capable computer. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been tinkering with it in the evenings and I’m absolutely blown away by this little device. I have been following the progress of the Raspberry Pi with keen interest for a while now and I’ve finally got one of my own to play with.

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