digital, peer-to-peer, creature
people help it move
a place that others can be invited to
a raspberry pi 3 running scuttlebutt, which people can become friends with
a living thing that likes being shuttled from person to person
a raspberry pi zero running a custom scuttlebutt client, sharing its heartbeat and dna
a button to interact with the creature, changing its heartbeat and dna
people interact with the creature by pressing the button
the button changes the creatures heartbeat
the heartbeat is shared with the home
anyone who is invited into the home sees the new heartbeat, and new dna
Gather the following materials
We use Docker to create and customize home.raspbian.img
, which will be etched onto a microSD card for the Raspberry Pi. This lets us create and customize new homes from our computers instead of directly on the pi.
Start by installing docker for your platform.
Next, open up a terminal, and clone this repository somewhere
git clone https://github.com/jedahan/creature && cd creature
Now we are ready to create an home! It make take up to an hour to build everything.
make home.raspbian.img
Once the home image is built, we can etch it onto a microSD card.
Install etcher (or etcher-cli) and point it to the image:
sudo etcher home.raspbian.img
Put the microSD card into a raspberry pi, turn it on, and after a minute or two you should see a 'home' wifi network up.
Follow the same steps as above, but replace home
with creature
The creature and home need to be 'friends' in scuttlebutt-speak for them to share information.
wireless diagram
hardware diagram
software diagram
interaction diagram
nodes press button => heartbeat updates locally => scuttlebutt shares new heartbeat to network => scuttlebutt scuttles (shares with friends and friends of friends of home)