Interactive demos

From Organic Design wiki

Things you can do with the pc to show off graphics or sound and get people's attention.

ASCII art

apt-get -y install mplayer caca-utils libcaca0 ttv
  • cacafire is cool - runs from console
cacafire
  • ttv uses the aalib to show video on a text console - for the web cam
ttv /dev/video0

Coloured lights triggering music

The Arduino NG is a small computer that can plug into your pc via USB.

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