A text mode console application for controlling the WowWee Rovio mobile webcam robot. Video feed is converted to ASCII, and drive commands are issued from the keyboard.

Rovio works just fine with Linux because it's controls are browser based. I did think it would be quite amusing though to have a special console interface to the Rovio, naturally text based and running in a terminal. Since the idea of it amused me so, I went ahead and made one. Because I like free software I'll provide it here to the world.

Requirements

• Python 2.5 -- I just used what's in the Ubuntu repos
• jp2a -- required for ascii video, from Ubuntu repo
• VLC -- optional, again from Ubuntu repo

Obligatory Screenshot

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