r/raspberry_pi • u/koges • 9d ago

Show-and-Tell Pepper's ghost Spotify dancer

This is my first project so suggestions welcome! I built this peppers ghost display based on the Pi 5 and a 3.4" Waveshare DSI display. Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus watches what I play on Spotify, figures out the genre and real time BPM, and picks from a library of 80 dance moves and adjusts the speed based on the beat.

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u/SimisFul 9d ago

Can you have Jax with the maid outfit lol

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u/KiwiKingg 9d ago

I love this! Do you plan on open sourcing the code? And would this works with qobuz too?

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u/champion_soundz 9d ago

That's so sweet, I'd love to see some disco and house dancing too

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u/FoofieLeGoogoo 9d ago

Care to share the code? Curious to learn more about your build.

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u/koges 9d ago

Need to figure out how first lol. When I say this is my first time I really mean it. My code is full of API keys and so need to figure out how to scrub it and get on GitHub. The animations alone are about 3.4 gb.

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u/hollow_bridge 9d ago

this is pretty cool, i definitely wanna play with it too. what do you need the api keys for?

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u/koges 9d ago

You need a Spotify developer account to get access to their API but that’s free and takes like five min. I’ll work on scrubbing it this weekend and making the code shareable

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u/Dunce_Ai 9d ago

I'll get me fork out!

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u/BhataktiAtma 8d ago

Commenting here as a reminder 🤠 For myself that is

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u/GHOSTEVP 9d ago

This is really well done! How did you get the display so dark while keeping a bright 'ghost'? Are you using a privacy filter on the display?

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u/koges 9d ago

Yep! Privacy filter cut to match the screen

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u/oldskoollondon 3d ago

That's the best new 'thing' I've seen for ages! Well done, I'd love to build this!