RaspberryPi Kiosk, 10 years later

Ten years ago I wrote up how I build a RaspberryPi kiosk. I still love screens on my walls that just show stuff. Tonight I set up a new one, and almost every step from 2016 has changed. window in development on my desk This one is called window, and it shows cambridge.natwelch.com, an analog world clock I made. It has a big face for London, smaller ones for San Francisco, New York, and Sydney, and the date and weather across the top. The hardware: A Raspberry Pi 5 A 10" Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 A Raspberry Pi 5 power supply A microSD card In 2016 I told you to buy the cheapest HDMI monitor on Amazon. I have upgraded this build to use the official Touch Display 2. It plugs straight into the Pi, takes its power from the Pi's GPIO pins, and is a decent size. Install the OS Raspberry Pi Imager now does what took half of the old post. Pick Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit), then in its customization settings set a hostname, a user, your WiFi, and paste in your SSH public key. There's no default…

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