At Xataka Home, we recently had the opportunity to talk about the advantages that the Raspberry Pi and a little imagination can offer us. However, our project with one of these boards is scalable to those offered by companies like Sharp NEC. And this what you see in the picture is not the television.

What appears in the image is nothing more than a screen used for commercial purposes. Large screen supporting cards like Raspberry Pibeing able to turn it into a fully functional Smart TV.

A display that can connect the Raspberry Pi to itself

The module offered by the manufacturer includes a modified Raspberry Pi 4 with a heatsink so that it can be attached to a Sharp NEC 4K UHD panel, a panel prepared to be on 24/7. The interesting thing is that convenience where it is possible to attach the module to the panelbecause we need to insert it into one of the back slots of the panel.

Creator Jeff Geerling delved into the topic via a YouTube video. Here you have commented on the operation of the Pi module on the panel, something that by its nature will allow us, install any operating system The Dashboard has Ethernet connectivity to enjoy applications, games or multimedia content, then you can connect to the Internet to do all kinds of tasks.

Operating systems like RetroPie, LibreELEC with Kodi, or Raspberry OS itself are compatible with the module, so the possibilities are endless.

Another virtue is Adding USB ports or the use of eMMC memory itself for storage. In this way, it is possible to play videos, music and other types of files via a USB stick or external hard drive.

Choose this alternative can completely free us from closed operating systems techniques for giving us personal advice when using our data in a dubious manner. However, the cost of the panel is $1,659 plus the $199 module cost can be a huge hurdle for many.

More info | Jeff Gerling