News How to Build a Scrolling-Text Face Mask with Raspberry Pi

[Admin]

Express yourself through scrolling text across your face mask with a flex NeoPixel matrix and Raspberry Pi.

How to Build a Scrolling-Text Face Mask with Raspberry Pi : Read more

 

[pelegbn]

"Why building a scrolling-text mask with Raspberry Pi". Here, fixed it.

 

[DZIrl]

Oh my God. That's curse, using Raspberry PI for such simple task. Cheapest 8 bit micro, eg PIC12Fxx consuming uA could do same. Much simpler!

 

[teknic111]

Some things should never be built. This is one of them.

 

[facuarmo]

This is such a fun way of wasting your money.

 

[nofanneeded]

Some things should never be built. This is one of them.

This is such a fun way of wasting your money.

Not really , contact any advertising firm and advertise some products while walking and get cash $$$

 

[vinay2070]

You can go and rob a bank with a gun in your hand and the text on your mask saying "Hands Up". Rich in a day!

 

[michaelahess]

This is really cool. Might use it to put something on my car's back window so I can tell folks to get off my ass, or use their turn signal. For the mask, I think it's super original. Don't know why this idea is getting such hate.

 

[Smosher104]

This tutorial didn't work for me after I got to Part 2. It can't find the PIL module to import from, so I installed Pillow and now Python can't even find the font used in the code.

Edit:
Before moving onto step 2 type:
sudo python3 -m pip install Pillow
sudo apt-get install -y fonts-liberation

The first line will install the PIL library needed. The second will install the default font used by the tstMsg.py script