Library and examples for the Display-o-tron Raspberry Pi add-on board from Pimoroni
http://shop.pimoroni.com/products/displayotron-3000
You can just:
sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip python-smbus
sudo pip install dot3k
To get started!
Then you can check out the Basic and Advanced examples in: python/examples
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http://www.jan-holst.dk/pi-radio/pi-radio.html - for initial inspiration to do a Radio plugin
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http://rollcode.com/use-python-get-raspberry-pis-temperature/ - for guidance on getting CPU/GPU temp in Python
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https://github.com/facelessloser/Atmega_screen - for stock ticker plugin