Hi Guys and Girls,
I’m fairly new to this but willing to learn and I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I’m a home brewer and like to tinker, I would like to make some beer font tap decals that are digital similar to the link below. I can get the font housing but I was just wondering how hard it would be to do and if anyone had some suggestions on how to do it. Pictures don’t have to move they can just be an image and it can be round or rectangle but preferably round.
There are a few companies currently doing this on a commercial level but I’m just looking to do it as a bit of fun for my home brew.
Thanks
Daniel
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Hi Daniel
What a great idea. I am sure one of the little colour screens would do this job and even animated. As for driving it I don’t know how small you can get RPi but the Arduino Pro Mini is pretty small and I have one driving a couple of 5M LED strings.
One for the display animating experts. Come on guys, I am interested in the solutions.
Cheers Bob
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Hi Daniel,
Sounds siiick, I’d love to see this done 
In terms of hardware I’d definitely head for something that can interface with a microcontroller - I’d check out the Round LCD from Pimoroni (I’ll preface this with I haven’t used this display in any projects): 1.3" SPI Colour Round LCD (240x240) Breakout | Pimoroni PIM570 | Core Electronics Australia
They have some alright looking examples for the Pico: pimoroni-pico/micropython/modules/picographics at main · pimoroni/pimoroni-pico · GitHub
(A Link to the Pico: Pico - Raspberry Pi Australia)
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Hi Daniel,
Sounds like a cool project, just to add a few more hardware options into the mix. Sparkfun has just launched two round displays that have a micro-controller build into the back of them.
Called the RoundyPi and RoundyFi respectively.
Having the built in wifi connectivity of the RoundyFi is almost certainly overkill for a beer tap though.
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