Originally shared by Drew Fustini (pdp7) Thanks to Ron Olson for the overview

Drew_Fustini_pdp7 · June 7, 2016, 2:10am

Originally shared by Drew Fustini (pdp7)

Thanks to @Ron_Olson for the overview of Qt and QML tonight at #chicago #hackerspace @Pumping_Station_One

Ron used BeagleBone Black, @element14 BB-VIEW cape and Qt to display the PS1 calendar on the front door

tachoknight/PS1-FrontDoor/blob/master/README.md

# PS1-FrontDoor
This is a project I put together to display something on the [BB-View](<https://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-55844/l/expansion-board-for-beaglebone-family-with-7-inch-lcd>) screen that is visible through the front door window of [Pumping Station: One](<http://pumpingstationone.org>). The computer driving the screen is a [BeagleBone Black](<https://beagleboard.org/black>) running Debian Linux attached to the screen via a ribbon cable.

As of April, 2016, it rolls through three screens:

* The PS:1 logo with the time of the open house displayed randomly on top
* The URL of PS:1's website (`pumpingstationone.org`) and the date and time of the open house
* The schedule of events taking place at PS:1 this week (currently it shows the first four in sooner-to-later order to fit on the screen because I haven't figured out how to make a nice marquee that shows everything)

There are two parts to the code base, the front-end [**PS1-FrontDoor application**](#ps1-frontdoor), and [**doorman**](#doorman), which is the back-end server.


## <a name="ps1-frontdoor"></a>PS1-FrontDoor (GUI application)
The PS1-FrontDoor application is a C++/QML application that uses the [Qt](<http://qt.io>) 5.6.1 framework. The Beaglebone Black has a native version of Qt compiled from Qt's git repository.

### Compiling Qt on the Beaglebone Black
The Qt library was downloaded from the Qt git repository (`https://code.qt.io`) and configured with:

	./configure -no-directfb -opensource

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Originally shared by Drew Fustini (pdp7) Thanks to Ron Olson ​ for the overview

Originally shared by Drew Fustini (pdp7) Thanks to Ron Olson for the overview