Making a Digital Dashboard! (w/ Google Calendar integration)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2019
- Is a plain old paper calendar too boring for you? Well, it is for me! So I built this digital dashboard with live Google calendar and to-do integration.
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Parts used:
TV go.toms3d.org/JVCTV, alternative go.toms3d.org/TCLTV
Rasberry Pi 4 go.toms3d.org/RPi4
+ 18mm pine project board, ebony-color varnish, wood glue
DAKboard software dakboard.com/
Tools used
Bosch 12V Circular saw go.toms3d.org/Bosch12saw (not available in US)
Bosch 12V bit driver go.toms3d.org/Bosch12driver
Bosch random orbital sander go.toms3d.org/BoschROS
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The wiggly end on the measuring tape has a purpose!
If you push against something it will give you a correct measurement and if you pull on it the wiggly bit will adjust so the measurement is accurate as well. By being wiggly it corrects the error due to the thickness of the metal bit.
did not know that but it makes sense
heh...another woodworker on here!
Yes, as anton said, the amount of play in the end, is meant to offset the thickness of the end.
Yes, tape measure is handy for measuring real world spaces but when marking out work Ive always done the same thing, go from the 10cm mark. It does make it more accurate if you're going for precision& ive also made the same mistake as forgetting to deduct it.
You took the words out of my mouth, but I have to confess that when I'm doing tight tolerance stuff like cabinetmaking, I measure everything from the 100mm (10cm).
When I do carpentry, then trusting the hook is all good for that for me where slight 1mm+/- tolerances are ok if it happens.
I'm a tradesman, are you a tradie too?
@@Colaaah I like the wooden collapsible rulers with the 6in slide piece at one end for tight spaces
"...doing anything in the future would mean re-learning the whole thing..." THIS IS MY LIFE! I am constantly having to re-learn. I truly appreciate that someone understands this. I am totally going to make one of these. As always, a fan.
Thank you for including your frustrations, mistakes, and false starts. It's really encouraging and a good lesson. Keep up the good work!
FANTASTIC project! You’re right, I wasn’t asleep ;)
You never sleep, when there is 3D Printing to be done!
You still know your sleeping schedule from August the 17th ?
@@TheRcEngineer Surprisingly - yes.
Classic Joel!
My respect for you that admitted the error, this is a sign of maturity and good will. I hope your work could give you satisfaction in this life.
For energy saving, I would consider installing a motion sensor for the screen in your frame.
Or even something as simple as proximity sensor.
That depends. Some TVs take a few long seconds to turn on and show content.
That just crossed my mind (just watched the video and was about to comment)
Then you can just hookup your security system to detect any movemnt in the house to turn tv on. Also if you have presenced information from something like home assistant you can turn it off if no one is home.
@@PhilippBlum Time is also money. If you have to loiter around the screen for a minute for it to start showing anything, then just open the calendar app on your phone instead. If you want to save time, have this running during the time you're in the office. If you want to save on energy, use your phone.
Love this idea! I was planning on making a MagicMirror, but this is much more along the lines of what my wife wanted. I build most of our furniture, so the frame part was no big deal, but your instructions and recommendation for Dakboard made the whole thing simple!! We have our shared calendar, ToDo list, weather and even Life360 locations displayed on a 28" LG TV (portrait) between our kitchen and dining room.
Thanks for this idea, and the step-by-step links!!
Thank you for the inspiration. I put it behind a see-through acrylic mirror, and added an arduino with two ultrasonic modules as an input interface for gesture control. I can swipe with my hand to change between the information screen (family calendar and tasklist, weather and traffic info) and an empty screen with just a digital clock, so I can use it as a mirror, too. It also allows future expansion.
A lot of work went into this video. Thanks for taking the time and effort Tom, I'm currently making a digital organiser for my wife and this video is invaluable.
Hey Thomas never buy a tv mount again unless you need the tv to swivel
the best easiest and cheapest way to mount a tv and literally make it earthquake proof is by using two french cleats
directly bolted to the vesa mount and the other part on the wall . the best part is you can pretty much make them in a
couple minutes just using some wood a saw and a drill. best part is you can take the tv off the wall and put it back in seconds
I'm an IT Systems Administrator and Woodworker and this has never occurred to me! All my cabinets in my workshop are on french cleats!
This is how I am doing it as well. I have a 55 inch done this way. So i would say it works at least up to that size.
I have french cleats all over my garage, and use them in my game room for the tv and other shelving - totally awesome.
(I had to make them nice and stain them for the wife).
Thats a very unsafe way to hang a tv. You can get a flat tilting wall mount these days for $15. Imagine you have guests over to your house, someone bumps into the TV and it falls on them. Now you have a lawsuit on your hands because there's nobody else to blame for building the mount that failed
@@andrewredding3132 what kind of guests do you have that would sue you for their error of bumping the tv down? lol
Outstanding! Very nice display Tom! Congratulations on your measurement recovery. It truly looks marvelous.
I have wanted a calendar on my wall like this for so long thank you very much for this project. Awesome work!
I love your Pulp Fiction innuendo at 6:43. Your video quality and professionalism seem to increase with every video.
First of all, very well thought through. Also well implemented and designed too. Great Job!
I really appreciate that you were transparent about making a mistake. Most people never show those parts.
Wonderful job! I like how clean and crisp it turned out! And I agree, there is just something to be said for software that just works.
the "wiggly end" or hook on a tape measure moves to compensate for the thickness of the hook so you get the same measurement whether you push the tape up to something or hook it on to pull.
But it is only good for measuring from an edge away from the tape and where you have space for the hook. It is in the way when you want to measure from anything else.
Thomas is so smart and articulate it's refreshing to see he makes mistakes like the rest of with that bezel measurement.
Yes....I would have been throwing stuff and inventing new curse words if that happened to me.
@@EnuffsEnuff318 lol, you aren't the only one :p
Oh hell yes! Watched the RasPi Video a few times to find out more about that board, and here we have it! Nice!
Thanks brother for an awesome, useful, and practical build that doesn’t take months to get going and/or to maintain! Excellent!!!
Very cool project! You could even add video streams from 3D printer webcams at the bottom to monitor prints.
10:45 "... don't have to deal with the wiggly end..." Face palm! The wiggly end have a purpose. It slides in and out the precise length of the thickness of the metal bit, so the measurements will be precise no matter if you measure from the inside or the outside.
this guy is a hack. it's not the first time he makes stuff about things he has no idea about. he makes pretty stuff that looks pretty on color graded video. I have serious doubts about the quality of his work.
I rebuilt this project and love it. I built my own digital part of it (designing the dashboard without the use of DAKBoard), which makes it very individual and I can display anything I want and need (like crypto prices for my case). Also, I was able to turn the tv off, when the phone of my girlfriend and me are outside of our WiFi and automatically turns back on when one of both phones is back. Makes it more energy saving and without the use of a PIR ;)
Did you just make a website?
@@KevinJohnMulligan yep, just created a little website for it, so I have my own individual content
This is perfect! I was just trying to figure out how to make a dashboard for the fab lab i run, post info on closures, events, etc. This will be so helpful
Just what I was looking for. I was right with you all the way from the build to the Pi config. Thanks Thomas!
Great project. Personally i use magic mirror. But i suggest you use a pir or a radar sensor to detect if someone is near to only show the screen then. It save a lot of energy
This is one of the projects that would really benefit from a PIR sensor to switch on/off dynamically and not based on a set time. Still an amazing build and a great idea! ;)
This! It's also easy to implement...
A regular tv shutting down and turning on can take a long time for older TVs.
@@xoniq-vr it's a 4k tv if I'm not mistaken, so I guess it's not that old. But you are right, it's probably not the best idea to make it turn off every 2 minutes or so
I was thinking the same - that a PIR sensor would be a great addition - but I've seen even quite new TVs (and PC monitors) that can take a frustrating amount of time to turn on. I think it would really depend not only on how fast your particular TV/monitor went from off to displaying a stable image (and without overlaying a huge on-screen display informing you that, yes, it's still on the HDMI input!!), but also on your particular use case and physical environment - i.e. could you usefully position the PIR so that, when you walk up to the screen, the PIR turned the TV on a sufficient amount of time before you were actually standing in front of it/wanting to read it.
You'd almost certainly want to crank up the timeout on the PIR sensor as well, so that it wasn't turning off "every 2 minutes or so" as The Tinker Dad mentioned. You'd want to find a happy balance between energy saving and not having it turn on/off too rapidly.
You'd especially want to do that with older TVs with CCFL-backlit displays (... no one's planning to do this project with a 40" CRT or projection-based TV, right‽ 🙀). I don't really know for sure how TVs would cope, long-term, with being turned on and off several dozen times per day, but I imagine that newer LED-backlit TVs would handle it much better than CCFL-based displays, due to the high-voltage circuitry used to drive CCFLs.
You might be able to have the TV/monitor turn off just the display, which would probably make it faster to come back. Maybe use that at first and then turn it off fully after a longer delay - similar to how Windows is often configured to turn off the screen after a few minutes and then sleep the whole PC after half an hour or so.
I still wouldn't be surprised if a TV used for something like this needed its power supply capacitors replaced after a few years - but honestly, if you have basic soldering skills, recapping a TV/monitor power supply is usually easy enough and is a very useful skill to have, given how often a dead TV/monitor merely has a couple of failed electrolytic capacitors, so for a few currency units and an hour or two of your time you can have a fully-working display again! :) (Just *WATCH OUT for the mains-voltage bits!!* Obviously unplug it from the mains before removing the cover, but the capacitors on the mains side of the power supply can hold a *nasty* charge, even several days after unplugging it! Anything up to 340V is possible, depending on where you live and the circuitry in question, and that's not something you want to feel the sharp end of!)
Jelle Posthuma Yeah sure, but you could increase the interval to find the sweet spot and SmartTVs nowadays have a semi sleep function (my LG takes just 5s from being off to running Netflix for example)
Very cool, I'm trying to start a kiosk company and this video helped fill in some gaps. When I saw the dry erase board being demoted I thought, yep that's something I would have done. My suggestion for the to-do area is to divide it in two or three sections, so you can see upcoming tasks, one task per square. Good job with the frame!
I respect the fact you had a major error and corrected it perfectly !
Dude, incase you didn't know, you, are a genius.
Could be a really great project for anyone with unused screens lying around, I like this.
And enough unused time on google calendar
I am disabled with very low vision in just one eye and you have designed the perfect digital dashboard system I need to make scheduling and tracking deadlines accessible to me. This is my dream tool. I so wish that I had the technical knowledge to follow what you have done and could build this but I do not. II was in a very bad auto accident 10 years ago when another driver ran a red light and totaled my car.---my vision and ability to speak was lost, and I did not even know who I was or where I was even in my own home. I have fought my way back with 4-5 hrs of physical therapy a day, lots of brain work etc. am on disability and my dream is to go back to work. It took me years to convince Vocational Rehabilitation Services to send me back to school, but I am in my first year of an MBA program and I am succeeding in spite of many challenges. Organizing and staying on top of my schedule is actually one of my biggest challenges. I have gotten a few lower grades because of missing a due date because its so hard for me to track 100's of pages of reading, multiple papers, group projects, 6 exams and up to 50 quizzes every 7 weeks a quarter. I have been saying for years that a large electronic wall calendar would be the most awesome tool--one that I desperately need now I am in school and wanting to work. Everyone has kind of just said oh, that would be nice but it doesn't exist. And here you have created a digital dashboard wall system--just what I need with a large screen display that I could "see"--perfect!! How much does it cost to build one? Nancy Lucas
Nancy Lucas Well an Raspberry Pi 4 costs around 60 bucks you can probably google it and check the price for your local area.
And the cost of the tv is very flexible since you can choose any tv or monitor I think.
Then a cheapo tv wall mount.
And you don't need to make a frame 🖼 for it so even cheaper.
You don't really need a wooden frame for it although I think the programming part of the project would be the biggest problem for you so you might wanna get a hand from someone else.
Looks great! Things I might add to the screen: 1) Public transport info for local lines/buses 2)Small front door entrance camera image 3) Total power consumption details.
Love the Pulp Fiction reference at 6:46!
I already thought noone noticed though it's so obvious... Guess we're too old ;)
@6:42 - Love the Pulp Fiction reference!
What a boss. Man the whole project (this video included) seems like soooo much work. Incredible.
I had it on my to do list for tonight to look into a digital calendar and here's a perfect video waiting for me. Great work!
Would love to hear if you have "improved" your project.
I absolutely love the "Dachlatten"
Lmao
Had to rewind a couple of times, to check if I heard that correctly xD
Greetings from Dresden ;)
time to learn some proper englisch pronunciation thomas, ppl r having hard time to understand u properly.
@@northwindx79 saying this because you are a Native? (Just curious;))
@@pentasonicnaturephotograph6937 i will not answer your question because what you asked is just an oxymoron. try to make sense next time.
@@northwindx79 well, the thing is this: I am considering two possibilities regarding your original comment: either you could be (proficient in) German, then our sense of humor is just not similar enough. That would be fair enough. Or you could be an English native speaker, then you should probably try to make videos in another language yourself. Third possibility: I got lost in the one-dimensionality of written communication and it's neither option. ;)
@@northwindx79 In Deutschland nennt man jemanden dann "Vollpfosten".
Awesome build and great breakdown and explanation of how you used Dacboard! Thanks for posting this video! God bless.
Great build and great video. I like to see it when people actually make a mistake and they own up to it in my mind it gives the video more authenticity. I've missed measure things in the past and it Easley to do. As the old saying says measure twice cut once.
@10:40 Been there, done that. I've told myself so many times: "Should've checked if it fits before finishing it completely..."
Would you please share the STLs for the printed vents? Very nice project!
Thanks for this video, set one up at home and at work to keep track of things we need to do.
Thank you for sharing when you realized you had built the wrong frame size. That was the most honest and relatable moment.
This is pretty great! Is there any way to incorporate a PIR motion sensor with the Raspberry Pi in order to keep the display off or dim until someone stands in front of it or walks past it? That way you wouldn't have to set a timer for turning it off and on.
Great! If it was touchscreen, would be amazing!
exactly why I ended up here. Thinking about making a wall mount tablet that is 20+ inches for the kitchen to display calendar, to-do lists, and you can touch screen it to do more. Does anyone know if any touch screen will work with a Pi? I am just starting learning about them now.
Fantastic project, it is 2 years old but you give me very good ideas. Thank you Thomas!
Love my Dakboard display in my kitchen! Powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero W. Just perfect for what we needed.
11:58 'fine tune with a hammer' is not a phrase you often hear
Also, you could just vesa mount the screen to the frame itself instead of the wall.
I'll be building this - but I'm going to add a swivel on the mount so I can move the screen. Really appreciate the work you did - thank you! Totally get the tape measure thing - family had a similar experience ...good thing we laugh about it.
This is by far one of the most practical projects I have seen! You videos are fantastic and very informative. I loved it when you opened the Makita case with that glow (pulp fiction?:) Keep up the great videos!!
Do you have any concerns about Screen Burn since many of the elements won't ever move such as the lines dividing the calendar cells and the labels for the time? I don't know if screen burn is as big of a deal these days in general but just thought I'd ask.
"can be used as a family planner" GREAT! I'll get rid of the condoms then!
I was about to write LOL, but that would probably have been misunderstood, because I literally laughed out loud :D
Different definition of "family planning" lol
😂😂😂
Too risky
is it what they call the calendar method?
Very Well done! I've always wanted to build something like this. Thanks for all your efforts!
I respect your hard work and patience to create something like this in this program, after a week of trying, I simply turned it off.
I would love to see it work with the assistant (Google or Alexa).
I would like to know more about the music clips used.
What I would do, add a motion sensor that could be used to turn on the screen, and off if no movement had been detected. With a long timeout for off of course. I am using some cheapy microwave sensors bought from Aliexpress for about a dollar. They are very sensitive. This could save some power and extend the life of the screen for some people.
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Nice tip with the microwave/radar sensors - I've only used PIR in the past, but radar could be a more sensitive option.
Measure twice, cut once. Nice recovery and great you showed us all how thing can go wrong but work out OK. Loved this video a nice change, respect.
Measure once, cut.
Um....cut again.
Um.....
I’ve got a raspberry pi 2 sitting here and man oh man do I ever want to do this project! It would be a huuuge time saver for me!
"And since it will be on for 10 hours a day..." I see Tom couldn't get the motion sensor plug in working on his installation either.
And yes, Magic Mirror needs a settings interface with APIs.
I didn't quite follow why "xrandr --rotate right" didn't work. What happened when you rotated the display?
this is awesome...great idea and increases productivity as well....using this for my office. thanks for sharing.
Nice project! Having worked on a number of projects myself using Raspberry Pi's I design my own 3D printed case that is made for mounting in to different and assorted projects. It provides protection and has a fan mount incorporated into it. I'm amazed on how much effort you put into the frame for your screen but for the Pi it's gets no love. Even a cheap Amazon case would be better than then double sided tape. Anyway I learn a great deal from your videos, keep up the good work
You're never going to be able to move with all the house mods you've made. 😄
Germans don't move like Americans.
10:41 The wiggle in the end of the tape measure is intentional, the hook can move the same distance as the thickness of the metal so it can measure correctly using either side of the hook
I would love to do one of these, was planning to do it in the start of the year, this will serve as a great guide.
Tom, I did kind of the same thing you did, except I went with PiSignage. It has a lot of great plugins for weather, task lists (I went with TinyToDo), and much more. I was also able to show content from multiple web pages on the same screen and uploaded pics of scenery to make a window to anywhere. The cloud access is nice as well. I like that you can group Pis into different content lists and update them all with a single click. As for cost. It's free to use if you have 1 or 2 Pis. Beyond that, I think the price is still fairly reasonable.
WOW, that is huge calendar. I hope you don't have any sensitive meetings in it, when you have guests :DD
Like dinners with different girlfriends? 😉
I want this But With E-paper!
It would use much less power, have great viewing angles and not emit light during night.
Same. But every time I look at prices for this (which has been like every 6 months for the past 2 years), E-ink displays are still very expensive and not very big. Like commonly available e-ink displays for the Pi are like 7-inches big for $500. And refurbished kindle screens aren’t much bigger. Something as big as a sheet of printer paper 8.5” x 11” doesn’t even seem to be available outside of bulk/commercial pricing, let alone something as big as what he has hanging on the wall there... oh yes, and those are all monochrome. Just forget color e ink exists because you can’t get your hands on them... 😩
I am absolutely going to build one of these for my classroom! 👍
I enjoyed that you showed your mistakes and what you did to correct it, great video
Magic mirror without mirror? :hmm:
I'm running five 50" 4K screens for dashboards at work, two of them powered by Raspberry Pi 3s with mentioned 4K@15Hz configs. However in my experience I think truth is that these dashboards are cool for few months and then you just forget them on the wall. The data on these dashboards must be simplified and easy to peek for quick information otherwise you stop caring what's visible there. :)
Well, DIY projects aren't always mean to be long-lasting like maybe this one. The fun comes from building and configuring it.
Insomniumer what kind of work do you do?
@@JLake3D Network Operations Center, it means a lot of stuff (networks, servers) to monitor in real-time.
6:42 had me laughing.
This man real skulls, hard & soft. Much respect ✊🏾
I'm going to build this. I'm glad I remember you built one of these.
"... and of course you can always finetune the position with the ... HAMMER" :-D ... MY MAN :-) !!! *LOL*
Crap, I just realized I left the private screen URL visible at 16:55...
Oohhh go there quick before he fixes it, you won't believe what Tom has got planned!
i cannot believe this
Thomas Sanladerer now we’ll all know what your calendar looks like :3
Nice project! And as far as "resizing" your frame - A true craftsman is he who makes mistakes but knows how to hide them.
I can't like this project enough. Nice work Mr. Sanladerer!
I feel the "I like to make Stuff" vibes here
I was watching with little attention and just assumed it was him
It seems quite an extravagant use of electricity.
These setups use surprisingly little energy.
Can I just say that having an extra flue for futureproofing is brilliant.
And using it to run solar panel cables is even brilliant-er.
That is SOOOO awesome.. I have a pair of laptop screens that might be perfect for this.
Another project to tack onto my list lol... Thanks Tom!
12:10 "licensed electrician" :D
Question: Does the screen burn-in occur faster from leaving the exact same screen for 10 hours a day?
Modern LCD screens, unlike OLED or Plasma, do not suffer from burn-in.
@@MadeWithLayers actually LED screens are able to suffer from “burn in” but is a relatively easy fix, white screen for 6-8 hours and back to normal helps “reset” the affected pixels ,
Thank you so much for posting this. I think I might have to give it a try!
Excellent project! Thank you. I would use the bottom space for security camera viewing! I use a Blue Iris video security system and it should be easy to add!
Show the latest XKCD in that free space
That's so cool. Thinking about the productive side of it, it is so useful :D
I should make one of these too, buuut I would put it into an infinity mirror.
*project ideas pop in mind*
Great work, Thomas! Congrats :)
that's such a good idea. That's a good functional tool to stay ahead. AWESOME WORK.
Wow! that is a great application for the PI, you have inspired me, I think I will do something similar with a smaller screen. Cheers!
You could place a News RSS feed in the bottom section of the calendar.
@Thomas Sanladerer check out xrandr for screen rotation, calling xrandr with no parameters lists connected screens and their ports. To rotate for example screen connected to port HDMI-1 (output on my PC) it should work with just: xrandr --output HDMI-1 --rotate right
Then just place it to same place where you start Chromium. If you wanted to change more parameters, you can install simple graphical tool arandr (or lxrandr) - enable screens you want, set their resolution and rotation as you want and then save as file. It will generate batch file with command you can just copy into your LXDE autostart file and it should apply all changes. If Raspbian still uses xserver, then it should work with no problem. Also another autostart file is .xinitrc and that should be universal for any desktop environment.
Super DIY project using both Hitech and handy man skills. Love your skills
Love your work bro looking forward to learning more of the creativity
you can add a motion sensor to turn on and off the monitor
Totally agree. We have a small picture frame that cycles pictures with the date and time in the corner that is activated with a PIR sensor. Definitely more energy efficient.
Agreed. Though depending on monitor/TV the wake time might be annoying - using an OLED would help, but also be insanely expensive.
Perhaps setting it so that between 6am and 6pm or something motion causes it to turn on immediately and off after 10 minutes without motion, but between 6pm and 6am it turns on only after say 15 seconds of motion but off after only like 2 minutes without motion - if you had to check it it'd kick on but if you walked past at night it wouldn't turn on.
if you like SpaceX & co you could display their next launches
That´s a great idea. I would like to know, if and how you can show the timeline of for example Next Spaceflight.
Love your channel. I made a similar one a couple years ago. I loaded Wordpress on the Pi and used all free plugins. I also added a pir sensor so that it would come on only when their was motion.
Don't you need a Wordpress Business account to use plugins. That's like $300 a year
Awesome build man! That's a nice office space. Digging the Scandinavian minimalist vibe.