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Ara

The robot songbird who generates her own birdsong, and sings for you every day.

Ara is a unique and passive experience. Discover companionship and digital art in an uniquely affecting way by living together with my first soulful object that has an inherent need to sing. As featured in Creative Review (https://www.creativereview.co.uk/know-caged-bird-sings/).

Image of Ara

See https://www.duncangough.com/portfolio for more.


Install

pip install ephem pip install musical

todo / notes / misc

  • crontab info

  • git pull daily

  • change the waveform to sound more like a whistle and less like a guitar

  • to increase volume on latest versions of Ubuntu: alsamixer sudo alsactl store

Make sure headphone output is selected (not HDMI), in /boot/config

Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)

dtparam=audio=on

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