Bloko's ticker scroller display

• This software was developed for my friend Ignacio Gatica's art project called "Stones Above Diamonds"
• It's job is to control an LED display, similar to the ones seen on financial districts. Here is a picture of it in action at Hessel Museum of Art:

Install

• This software is meant to run on a Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS. Tested on Raspberry Pi OS Lite Kernel version: 5.10, Debian version: 11 (bullseye)
• Requires Python version 3.7 at least, tested on 3.9
• Requires internet connection in order to update ticker values
• For the ticker display:
  • You must first install this: https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix
  • Make sure Python 3 bindings are correctly installed by running some samples
  • Then clone this repo inside bindings/python/samples folder
  • Only then you should try to run the ticker

Autostart setup

• Run ./install-services.sh
• Make sure its executable chmod +x install-services.sh

Handy commands

• Run scroller only: $ ./run_scroller.sh
• Check service status: $ systemctl status bloko.service
• Restart service $ sudo systemctl restart bloko.service