showbits/README.md

showbits

Displaying pixel-perfect images on esoteric devices.

Thermal printer ideas

• Appointments, tasks for the day
• Business card that looks like a receipt
• Commit history (maybe across repos)
• Emails (live)
• HN front page
• Issues on a GitHub repo (like tickets - "when your number is called, ...")
• Large image using multiple strips
• Live graph (a new row of pixels every few seconds)
• Measuring tape
• QR codes
• Quote (fortune, maybe cowsay)
• RSS feeds (live?)
• SSH login attempts (live)
• Sudoku
• Sunrise, sunset
• Text banner (text flows parallel to paper)
• Weather report
• Wiki To Go
• Xkcd (current, random)

Implemented:

• Calendar
• Cellular automaton (1D)
• Chat messages (euph, twitch)
• Instant camera
• Procedural easter egg generator