Making a Cat TV with Raspberry Pi #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi @bekathwia
Becky Stern presents a wonderful miniature television project for Raspberry Pi:
Today we’re building a mini television for cats. My cat Benchley loves watching TV. It’s really a mini computer, since I’m using a Raspberry Pi to play YouTube on a little HDMI screen.
I’m using a display gifted to me by Elecrow. It’s a five-inch LCD with capacitive touch and comes with an HDMI cable for video and audio and a USB cable for power and touchscreen input.
It works with my Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 out of the box, so I just plugged in both cables, as well as a USB speaker, keyboard, and mouse.
The case is 3D printed.
Finally, I brought the finished TV to the living room to see what Benchley and his brother Hamlet think about the final result. They love it!
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