I initially installed https://github.com/jareware/chilipie-kiosk as the image and used their customization flow to do things like specify the URL.

But I ended up also adding some things - python based script to set the timezone from the network for instance. For my local usage, I used macOS Disk Utility to create an image from the SD card I had used when installing additional software and making further customizations. I can use that to flash additional SD cards with everything properly setup.

That image is however extremely large - 30GB. I don't think there's really 30 GB of important things on there, but am pretty clueless about how to create an image that has all my customizations and end up with an .iso more similar in size to the forked project (800 MB).

I think that if we install Chainblock as a PWA on the image, we can then use offline support to build the wifi setup into the dapp itself, or at least the frontend for it. Will likely still need to serve a Node app from the pi.

see https://github.com/sabhiram/raspberry-wifi-conf

Very hand-wavy but I want to figure out how we can create an "app store" where 3rd party devs can bundle their own component that would be dynamically imported for users to install as apps.

Ideally we allow 3rd party devs to create these widgets without having to touch the source code here.

I'd like to support the dynamic NFT project Chaos Roads - https://www.chainleft.art/chaos-roads

Right now the collection is being displayed using the IframeNFT component. This fetches metadata and iframes the animation_url.

This is less than ideal for a few reasons - we cant control the audio of the iframed window to pause it when the slide is not active, for instance. The main issue is that this tends to lock up the chromium browser. I've tried on a 2gb and 4gb RAM rpi 4B, and neither is really able to handle this.

The artist shared their codebase for a website they use to display tokens - https://github.com/chainleft/chaos-roads-explorer

It's entirely possible that the pi image isn't well-tuned for this, but as a first step I'd like to create a custom component that mimics the above site to try and bring more of this inside our control.

I did something similar for my project BlockClocks, where rather than iframing the site pinned on ipfs, I recreated that page as a react component.

So the steps generally here would be

1. create a component to display a chaos roads token - maybe under the Collections dir?
2. Change the chaos roads collection from using the IframeNFT to instead use this custom component
3. A chaos roads token is hardcoded to be displayed inside Slideshow.tsx so one will display when running the dapp regardless of connected account holdings

I don't think we necessarily need to run the image to test things, instead load up your dev version of the site on your pi using ngrok. Then I can deploy a preview version for final testing and acceptance.