Conway game of live on a tiny Oled screen

This is a simple NodeJS application to run a Conway's game of life on the Raspberry Pi and display the cells on an oled screen.

The screen I use is the PiOled from Adafruit. you can also buy it from our pirate friends from Pimoroni.

TLDR

git clone https://github.com/Kylir/oled-fun.git
cd oled-fun
npm install
node lib/oled-conway.js

In action

Look at this! So tiny! So useless! So beautiful!

Magic

All the Magic of the display comes from a superb NodeJS module called oled-i2c-bus. I'm just using it...

Assumptions

• You have a working Raspberry Pi.
• You have a working PiOled screen (might work with another oled screen... try changing the I2C addr and the screen size.)
• NodeJS is installed.
• Git is installed.

Installation

• Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/Kylir/oled-fun.git

• In the repository folder, install the dependencies:

cd oled-fun
npm install

Run the program

node lib/oled-conway.js

you should see a randomly generated world evolving every 0.3 second.

More...?

• Tweak the configuration for a different I2C address or a different screen size:

Open the file config/constants.js and change the values.

• Run the unit tests:

npm test

• Why is there no semi colons?

You don't need them in Javascript. Try it for few weeks and tell me you want to go back...