Run script hello to generate 'hello my name is ...' badges.
If an A6 thermo printer is attached, the hello script will print a badge, perfect for hackathons and meetups in general.
Tested on Raspberry Pi 400, known to not working on MacOS (bluez not installable).
This script uses chafa for rendering the badge in ascii art on the command line and python's pygame / ppa6 to create and print the badge. Please install chafa anyway you like. And follow the pyenv steps to install the python dependencies.
This script is written in python and it is recomeneded to use python venv. Activate it by using python -m venv venv. It creates a new folder venv. To activate that environment use source venv/bin/activate. Now that the environment is activated use pip install -r requirements.txt to install all dependencies.
Finally executing
./hello
will start the badge creator.
In the welcoming menu, type verbs to find out what else to do:
help
Use start to start the badge printing. A name of exit will exit the badge creation. Entering exit in the main menu will exit the main menu.
The user will get attracted by an attached screen, sees random images and is able to just print a badge, after entering a name and a number. The number references a predermined array of emoji or image pathes, and renderes them at the bottom center of the badge. This image / emoji is of great use for team building, and converstation starters.
Please feel free to read through the screen text to find out more what it can do.
Also: Rainbows.
Any feedback is appreciated: