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

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/

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