I have seen a few projects similar to the one you've linked. This is the first one using a Pi Zero that I've seen but there's no reason why this wouldn't work. (I've never used Pi Zero's personally)
A RPi2 and 3 both have 4 USB ports, LAN, HDMI, and audio out. His point about a Pi2 and a smaller power supply is a good one, but then you lose WiFi. My monitors are all VGA, so I use the following to provice VGA out and WiFi (Sorry if advertising isn't allowed but I've tried other products with less reliable success) https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-wifi/products/usb-wifi-adapter-for-the-raspberry-pi https://thepihut.com/collections/cables-leads/products/raspberry-pi-hdmi-to-vga-convertor The new version of Raspbian is Pixel which includes a very good X GUI. I've never done any GUI programming on Linux so I can't help there. My personal preference would be to use something like Firefox or Chrome in Kiosk mode. There is nothing to stop you then using Perl CGI to update the web page, although I would probably have a static HTML /JavaScript page with a Perl CGI backend providing the content. You could of course have Apache also running on the Pi -- https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/garys-march-march -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
