Uschi

Uschi is a Raspberry Pi powered personal helper. You talk it does.

Big shout out to:

Henner Zeller
for creating this awesome piece of software:
https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix

Alex Eden
for creating these awesome nodejs/typescript bindings:
https://github.com/alexeden/rpi-led-matrix

Features:

• Public Transport: BVG-Stations around you
• 3DPrinting: Status of your running 3D-Print over OctoPrint
• Calendar: Display your personal or family Calender
• School: Display your childrens lLesson plans
• Sports: Display Soccer Results for your preferred leagues via openligaDB
• Images: Slide through a defined folder of images
• Video: Show (at least) one video
• Screensaver: An animation test based on my p5js sketch
• Draw: Possibility to draw on LED-Panel via web Canvas interface
• Text: Write on your Screen via web interface
• Fun: Let Uschi insult you with Schimpfolino

Planned Features

• creating one single Config-File to manage Uschi as a system
• Playing Games on this thing, propably snake
• Speach to text "Du, Uschi? - Show the Calander"
• Text To Speach
• ChatGPT

Installation

see Setup

Shopping List

(no affiliate links)

Raspberry

Raspberry Pi 5 Reichelt
Power Supply Reichelt
Cooling Reichelt
SD-Card (any size > 16GB will be ok) Reichelt

LEDs

6x RGB-LED-Matrix-Panel, 2 mm, 64 x 64 Pixel RoboShop

LED Power Supply

• without fan
• a lot of watts, as 24,576 LEDs need to be powered in the end

Ebay Must still be configured according to the LET-panels

Uschi Uses: Output voltage: 1: +5V, Structure: LED power supply (IP67), power supply series: 08: LPV-100 (100W series)

Propably a 45W alternative is working too, but I haven't tested yet Amazon

Raspberry Pi Hat

Joy-IT Matrix-Controllerboard für RGB-LED-Matrix, inkl Lüfter ELV

Contributing

Feel free to contribute, lets discuss what could be done better.

Contribution

Weather Icons Socket.io
mantine.dev
https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix
https://github.com/alexeden/rpi-led-matrix