Light speed with Python and JS - Bite code!
Nope, this article is not about making Python and JS run very fast, it's about making a light speed effect for the fun of a hundred of drunk people.
Take a midi board, connect it using mido and fastapi, send the signals to some JS over websocker, draw lines on top of a trippy video when you receive a message...
Every year, we make a big party on Halloween turning an entire house into whatever madness we have decided on. In 2023, we went sci-fi, and transformed it all into a giant spaceship. It took about 2 months and 20 persons to setup:
You can hear me dying in the background. And one friend trying the piano one last time before it becomes part of a cardboard nuclear reactor.
Just like with professional projects, it starts with very a serious meeting where we make a coherent plan. Then we proceed to never follow it and move in absolute chaos until the deadline forces us to make compromises.
One of my missions was to spice up the cockpit, so I installed a laser projector with a video of colorful space animations behind a frame. The end result is super nice:
