The Raspberry Beer’o’meter

I was once in the hackrrspace in Pristina, Kosovo, where ingenuity and DIY-culture reign supreme.. the group has a beer-brewing project, which turns out to be quite popular, and as a result the freshly brewed batches don&#x27;t last long.<p>So they did the hacker thing and wired up the keg to an EPS8266, and gave everyone an RFID chip with which to gain their weekly beer rations.<p>I found this immensely amusing. Truly a wonderful hackrrspace .. if anyone ever gets a chance to visit Pristina, check them out .. and bring them some hardware to play with, while you&#x27;re at it ..

A word of caution if you are starting a small LCD project: the framebuffer approach is dead on Linux. The new approach is DRM (Direct Rendering Manager), that allows partial LCD updates from userspace. See<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raspberrypi.org&#x2F;forums&#x2F;viewtopic.php?t=128736" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raspberrypi.org&#x2F;forums&#x2F;viewtopic.php?t=128736</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;notro&#x2F;fbtft&#x2F;issues&#x2F;432" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;notro&#x2F;fbtft&#x2F;issues&#x2F;432</a>

FWIW I think a more reasonable goto (than a browser) for a Raspberry Pi dashboard would be something along the lines of Qt QML, maybe with Python Qt bindings if you don’t want to write C++ code. It’s not really lightweight, but it can interface with the bare KMS EGL (no Xorg needed,) is hardware accelerated, and performance was acceptable when I last tried it on, I believe, a Pi 3.