The Raspberry Pi is a great single-board computer for working with multimedia projects, that is, the integration of graphics, audio, video, and so forth. This chapter presents how to make a social and personal digital photo frame using the Raspberry Pi 3 with a few hardware and software components. It can be mounted on a desktop or attached to a wall, like a traditional photo frame.
The social media platform we'll be going to use is Flickr, which provides a Flickr API to deal with a set of Flickr web services. The photo frame is capable of fetching all the images stored in a specified Flickr album and displaying them as a full-screen slideshow on a video display at regular intervals. Also, the photo frame can periodically sync its local image library with the pointed Flickr album.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Connect and configure the Waveshare...