The Little Things In Life New Year's Crossword Card Generator

This is the code for a New Year's card generator. The cards consist out of a crossword puzzle about the happy little things in life.

The generation of the crosswords is an updated version of the Crossword Generator by satchamo

Installation

Well... this is a mix of NodeJS, Python and Bash scripts. ZX is the glue between them all.

Google sheets

The clues for the crossword, the names for the addressed (their names are in the crossword...) and the adresses (for the envelope) are all in a Google Sheet. Get yourself a Google API key and put it in the .env file.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M
code	namesstring	name1	name2	name3	name4	name5			addressline1	addressline2	addressline3	addressline4
=leftb(REGEXREPLACE(md5(B1);"[0,1]+";"");6)	=LOWER(CONCATENATE(C1:I1))	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...

Output directories

The output directories are not in the repo. Create them yourself:

crosswords/
gcode/clues/
gcode/envelop/
gcode/grid/
svgs/clues/
svgs/envelop/
svgs/grid/
svgs/solution/

Vpype

Awesome tool to manipulate SVGs. See Vpype for installation instructions.

Usage

These are the commands one can run:

• --penup - move the pen up
• --pendown - move the pen down
• --generate - generate the crosswords (that are not yet generated). This will make the crosswords themselves, saved as a JSON file. It will also generate the SVGs for the clues, the grid, the envelope and the solution. Finally, it will transform them into gcode.
• --code and --type - to plot a single gcode file. One can choose 'grid', 'clues' or 'envelop' as the type and a code as the code.
• --conveyor - to plot all the gcode files that are not yet listed in the plotted.txt file. When finished plotting a file, it will ask you to press any key to coninue. This way you can change the paper.