A warming fireplace on your tree

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The 3D print is a two-piece model. I've included an STL file with a rough approximation of a Raspberry Pi B+ and a 2.8-inch Adafruit TFT LCD screen, which you should remove before printing. Use M2.5 press-fit brass inserts to attach your Raspberry Pi to the backing plate. Drill one hole in the fireplace piece to route the USB power cable. Version 1.1 will include a bezel and three pieces that snap together with routing for power. The electronics are a Raspberry Pi B+ with a 2.8-inch Adafruit TFT LCD. The Raspberry Pi is running Raspbian with a single bash script to start the fireplace video on boot. I've used a Creative Commons video from YouTube, converted with Handbrake to 320x244 resolution. For Raspbian installation, visit https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/. Adafruit has an excellent tutorial on connecting the screen at https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pitft-28-inch-resistive-touchscreen-display-raspberry-pi/. Stop the tutorial once you've played the Big Buck Bunny video successfully. To create a script to start the video on boot and loop it infinitely, log in to your Raspberry Pi and run "sudo nano /etc/init.d/fireplace.sh." Copy in the following code: #!/bin/bash sudo SDL_VIDEODRIVER=fbcon SDL_FBDEV=/dev/fb1 mplayer -vo sdl -framedrop -loop 0 /home/pi/fireplaceforpi.mp4 Press Ctrl+O to write changes and Ctrl+X to exit nano. Then run "chmod 777 /etc/init.d/fireplace.sh" to allow Raspbian to execute the script on boot. Finally, run "sudo update-rc.d fireplace.sh defaults." This tells the init system to execute fireplace.sh on boot.