Follow our instructions below to create a beautiful wall display for your photos, calendar, news and weather, powered by a Raspberry Pi! Not into DIY? Check out the shop to purchase the 24-inch wall display! Things You’ll Need Monitor with HDMI input (preferably an IPS panel!) (roughly $200, depending on size) Short HDMI cable (1 foot is perfect, … Continue reading DIY Wall Display
DAKboard Does RSS!
DAKboard Does RSS! By popular demand, we’ve recently added support for RSS feeds! DAKboard can now display headlines in a news-ticker style right along with your calendar, weather and beautiful photographs! To add a RSS feed: login to your DAKboard, click the gear icon in the upper right to access DAKboard options and click “RSS” … Continue reading DAKboard Does RSS!
DAKboard User Interface Design
Since it’s inception, the user interface design of DAKboard has centered around two key design principles: minimalism and distance legibility. Minimalism is conveying our message (ie. the time, or an event) as simply as possible with the fewest user interface elements as possible. And distance legibility is arranging and sizing the user interface elements such … Continue reading DAKboard User Interface Design
DAKboard is out of Beta!
Today we’re proud to announce that the beta period is ending and we’re launching DAKboard as a service! Over the past year we’ve been busy fixing bugs, adding features and we received a lot of great feedback from the community. With that, we have a (growing!) backlog of features and integrations we hope to work on in the coming months. … Continue reading DAKboard is out of Beta!
Status Update
Our main focus over the past few months has been on bug fixes and minor feature enhancements. The beta period has been going well and we have over 1,000 users registered and using our free service! So thank you to everyone for that! We’ve also received quite a few emails requesting new features. While the time … Continue reading Status Update
Dropbox Integration Added!
We’ve finalized our integration with Dropbox and you can now have DAKboard display photos from your Dropbox! To utilize Dropbox, once logged in, on the configuration screen under the Photos section, you’ll see Dropbox as an option in the “Show Photos From” dropdown. Choose this then click the “Authorize” button to link your Dropbox account. Once … Continue reading Dropbox Integration Added!
Join Our Flickr Group!
Calling all photographers, professional and amateur! Submit your best photos to be displayed on DAKboard! You can join the Flickr group at https://www.flickr.com/groups/dakboard/ The group features some of the best photographs from the community for display on DAKboard! In the DAKboard configuration, set the “Photo Source” to Flickr, and set the “Show Photos From” to DAKboard … Continue reading Join Our Flickr Group!
DAKboard Beta Launched!
We are proud to announce the launch of DAKboard beta today! In this beta phase, we will be refining, tweaking and upgrading features on a daily basis, and unfortunately, there may be an occasional bug. However, during this beta period we are offering DAKboard to you as a free service! Once we get all the issues ironed out, DAKboard will launch … Continue reading DAKboard Beta Launched!