I made something very similar using an Arduino Ethernet (using Power Over Ethernet). For the same reasons you mentioned, I totally recommend your way over mine;

I made something very similar using an Arduino Ethernet (using Power Over Ethernet). For the same reasons you mentioned, I totally recommend your way over mine; the Arduino was super expensive, and doing the HTTP myself was more work than it should be. http://drewgottlieb.net/2014/03/02/opensource-event-display.html http://drewgottlieb.net/2014/03/02/opensource-event-display....