An Easy DIY Display for Your Kitchen
Stanislav Khromav has a fantastic tutorial that will walk you through building your own kiosk-style Raspberry Pi kitchen display with ease.
If you're like most people, you spend quite a lot of time in the kitchen doing tasks, like washing dishes or stirring pots, that take time but don't require your full attention. That makes the kitchen the perfect place for a display to keep you updated on whatever interests you. Maybe you want to see current stock prices, breaking news, or a word of the day to expand your vocabulary. If such a display intrigues you, Stanislav Khromav has a fantastic tutorial that will walk you through building your own Raspberry Pi device with ease.
There are, of course, "assistant" devices that have screens. Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook have all released devices like these over the years, with varying degrees of success. But to see something on one of those, you have to ask it and hope that it correctly registers your request. Khromav wanted a device that could rotate through specific web pages without any direct intervention and that feels like a common use case that isn't accommodated by consumer devices. The solution is a DIY device and it is surprisingly easy to pull off.
Khromav chose to use a few hardware components that should be easy for anyone to acquire. Those are a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B single-board computer, a 7" touchscreen, and a RasPiKey EMMC storage module. The touchscreen has a built-in mount for the Raspberry Pi on the back, so it doesn't require an enclosure. The RasPiKey provides more reliable storage that should exhibit much better longevity than a standard micro SD card would.
The software setup only requires a few steps. The goal is to automatically launch the Chromium web browser at boot, then to cycle through web pages at set intervals. Those web pages can be anything, including self-hosted content or even just static pages in local storage. Khromav demonstrates several possibilities, but you can set your display up with whatever interests you.
If you want a kiosk-style display for your kitchen, then you can follow Khromav's guide to set this up in a single afternoon.