Advertising with the Raspberry Pi
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Video sequences or slide shows promote sales. With a Raspberry Pi and the Raspberry Slideshow distribution, you can capture the attention you need.
Thanks to its active community and incremental improvements, the Raspberry Pi has long since surpassed the point of purely experimental applications. In the meantime, the miniature PC has made itself useful in the commercial environment, for example as a controller for industrial machines.
For this article, the Raspberry Pi comes into play where previously expensive TV sets with VCRs or, in recent times, individual computers with displays have been used for advertising purposes. With Raspberry Slideshow [1] and the tiny computer, you can bring multimedia content to the screen professionally and at a very low price.
Thanks to intelligent software, the Rasp Pi can easily supplement advertising columns and billboards. You can use the Raspbian-derivative Raspberry Slideshow to play a digital photo album or fade in video sequences, which can be mixed if necessary.
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