Getting started

Pre-requisites

bzzzbz is a self-contained video-synthesizer prototype that runs on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with additional custom hardware to interface with external inputs. All the code and the information in this repository is adapted for this specific prototype. Check out the hadrware section to build your own "box"!

However, some of the functionalities should also work on most Linux distributions (tested on Ubuntu and Linux Mint) without the need of the hardware. You can:

• Run simple visuals without any control or audio input.
• Run audio-reactive visuals with you computer microphone. bzzzbz uses JACK audio server that is cross platform and uses the first input port that it "finds" on the system. This is however system dependent and you might have to modify the audio processing code to pick the right input (for example, your computer might be connected to an audio interface and have multiple input channels). On most cases, it should pick up the microphone.

All the following examples and guides will refer to the bzzzbz prototype. Everything that can be also implemented on a Linux computer will be explicitly specified.

Installation

Dependencies