Motivational messages

xcybex Motivational Messages

• Goal: write a motivational message generator (in small groups)
• Possible outputs: shell wall, HTML file (on web directory), printer, audio (text-to-speech)

• input:
• process:
• output:
• design the workflow: what will be the workflow/strategy?

Life Hack Publications:

• Life hack coach
• print publication

Scripting on the Pi

methods

> write to `some-command` between backticks is evaluated (executed) by the shell before the main commandand the output of that execution is used by that command | pipe

Tools:

Input reading:

• cat
• wget - network downloader
• sed - to read specific file lines: sed -n LINENUMBERp e.g sed -n 4p sed -n 5,10p
• wc - word/line/character counter

ascii art

• figlet
• toilet
• cowsay
• jp2a
  • install it: sudo apt-get install jp2a
  • jpg image
  • do the conversion

social tools

• write username - chat with the users
• wall - message to all users

echo HI WORLD | figlet -f /home/pi/figlet-fonts/ticksslant.flf > /dev/ttyUSB0
echo "yolo" | figlet -f /home/pi/figlet-fonts/weird.flf > /dev/ttyUSB0
echo "yolo" | figlet -f /home/pi/figlet-fonts/madrid.flf

and the command to print a jp2a is..?

jp2a -f *insert link* > /dev/ttyUSB0

jp2a -f --colors --background=light  

Text Processing:

• sed - stream editor for replacing terms/character. e.g. where e is replaced by 3: sed 's/e/3/g'

cat mona.txt | sed 's/0/?/g'
cat mona.txt | sed 's/e/3/g'| sed 's/o/0/g'| sed 's/a/4/g'

• sort - sort (alphabetically) lines of text files

sort --random-sort userlist.txt | head -n 1 

• dadadodo - markov-chain based text generator
• text-to-speech: espeak

cat silvio.txt | dadadodo -c 1 - | espeak

art works

Artybollocks generator https://artybollocks.com/ Templates + variables

https://twitter.com/tweet_captain

https://twitter.com/proust2000 http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Jonas_Lund/In-Search-Of-Lost-Time

related subjects

• cron jobs
• bash scripting

bash scripting resources

• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bash_Shell_Scripting
• http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_writing_shell_scripts.php Writing Shell Scripts

http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/doku.php

Dot matrix printers

dot matrix prinrt: technicalities. can design typeface in bit data is to receive and print out characters (and make noise https://vimeo.com/6868193)

The User https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grUniaqzXtU

piping command: what does it mean to pipe? | echo "something something" |wc -w| figlet

octal

Motivational messages - work groups

Tancredi, Paloma, Artemis, Simon team

outcome

http://145.24.139.232/~outis/motivation.jpg

http://145.24.139.232/~outis/motivation.jpg

script

/home/txtgenerator1/mem.sh

#!/bin/sh

dir=/home/txtgenerator1
A=`sort -R $dir/A.txt | head -n 1`
B=`sort -R $dir/B.txt | head -n 1`
C=`sort -R $dir/C.txt | head -n 1`
D=`sort -R $dir/swear.txt | head -n 1`
IMG=$dir/img/`sort -R $dir/img/IMG.txt| head -n 1`

echo Do $A to make $B.
echo $C...$D!!!hello
echo $IMG

TEXT="Do $A to make $B."
TEXT2="$C."

convert $IMG -resize 1300x \
-font "Nimbus-Mono-L-Bold" -pointsize 45 -fill white -stroke black -strokewidth 2 -blur 0x50 \
 -gravity northwest -annotate +25+25 "$TEXT" -gravity southwest -annotate +25+25 "$TEXT2" $dir/motivation.jpg

C=`cat C.txt | sort -R | head -n 1` echo $C

MEME GENERATOR --> convert ascii-code-t.jpg -font Impact-Regular -fill white -pointsize 79 -stroke black -strokewidth 3 -gravity southwest -annotate +25+25 'BLAH BLAH BLAH' test.jpg

convert ascii-code-t.jpg -font Impact-Regular -fill white -pointsize 79 -stroke black -strokewidth 3 -gravity northwest -annotate +25+25 'BLAH BLAH BLAH' test.jpg

get fonts that convert accepts convert -list font

cronjob: performs a task very so often crontab -e

https://crontab.guru/

Bo, Bi, Pedro, Rita group

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/LINKEDIN

outcome

http://145.24.139.232/~pedrosaclout/linkedinproject/

In my role as Head of recruiting for technology product development in India, I have had the exciting opportunity to was director of Open State Foundation, a non-profit organization. I am Isla Garcia and I . I take responsibility and pride myself in being strategic yet adaptable. I have an entrepreneurial spirit in that I enjoy taking on new challenges, creating new opportunities and designing new programs. My passions lie in reinforcement learning. When Iâm not focused on my professional endeavors, you can find me go 14,000 feet above sea level hiking a mountain. My goal is to be a good social responsibility person in society.

script

/home/pedrosaclout/public_html/linkedinproject/generator.sh

#!/bin/sh
dir=/home/pedrosaclout/public_html/linkedinproject
profession=`cat $dir/professions.txt | sort -R | head -n 1`
subject=`cat $dir/subject.txt | sort -R | head -n 1`
goal=`cat $dir/goal.txt | sort -R | head -n 1`
education=`cat $dir/education.txt | sort -R | head -n 1`
quotes=`cat $dir/quotes.txt | sort -R | head -n 1`
adjectives=`cat $dir/adjectives.txt | sort -R | head -n 1`
name=`cat $dir/names.txt | sort -R | head -n 1`
hobby=`cat $dir/hobby.txt | sort -R | head -n 1`
experience=`cat $dir/experience.txt | sort -R | head -n 1`

template=`cat $dir/template.txt| sort -R | head -n 1`


echo $template | sed "s/PROFESSION/$profession/g"  | sed "s/EXPERIENCE/$experience/g" | sed "s/SUBJECT/$subject/g" | sed "s/GOAL/$goal/g" | sed "s/EDUCATION/$education/g" | sed "s/QUOTE/$quotes/g" | sed "s/ADJECTIVES/$adjectives/g" | sed "s/NAME/$name/g" | sed "s/HOBBY/$hobby/g" | sed "s/EXPERIENCE/$experience/g" > $dir/index.html