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+# InfoDisplay
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+This project was made to drive a Raspberry Pi connected to a spare monitor. The program itself loads json files to determine the format and content of elements to be displayed. It is also possible to user-defined scripts to provide images or text to be rendered. 
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+The project uses PyGame under the hood, so any computer with it should be able to run it. There is no kind of security protection for the user-defined scripts, so keep that in mind if you mean to use this.