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Turn everything on, run your script (or let it autostart), and you're ready to be a walking
war wound, as shown in
Figure 3-13
. We recommend some nice zombie makeup to
complete the look.
Figure 3-13.
Screen running in hole window
You can take this hack in other directions as well. Embed a larger screen in the chest
of a robot to show its “controls,” or have music videos playing on a dancing robot.
Build a Fallout Pip-Boy. Put the camera and screen together in front and create a
steampunk “explorer” character whose rig displays a first-person account of what he
finds. Dream up all sorts of other possibilities and get to costuming!
Look for Aliens
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Your Raspberry Pi can be a part of the world's largest distributed com-
puting project. You might not actually find signs of alien life, but then,
wouldn't it be fun if you did? And your Pi does all the work.
For more than a decade, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project has
used distributed computing through SETI@Home to help with the massive task of
sifting through the data from radio telescopes for signs of intelligence beyond Earth.
These telescopes receive more noise than anything else, and every bit more data that
can be processed means a wider range of frequencies that can be examined. This was
originally done using supercomputers until David Gedye organized the SETI@Home
project to enable anyone, anywhere to help process all of the data they were acquiring.
You can conduct your own piece of the ET hunt with your Raspberry Pi (or several of
them!).
