Among other things, I’ve been working on creating a Custom-Faces Mod for the Pwnagotchi featuring Radical Edward’s avatar from the anime Cowboy Bebop! Once finished, I’ll share the image files, an installation tutorial, and a featurette detailing it’s integration into a larger, as-of-yet secret project.
Copying and installing a series of images seemed like such a simple endeavor; in actuality, it has been fraught. Not all of the pwnagotchi’s emotional states are represented by Radical Edward’s avatar in the anime, and I struggled to create faces that were both original and seemed authentic. Installing the images on the pwnagotchi took some doing. For one reason or another installation failed a number of times, requiring that the disk image be re-flashed, the files re-edited, and the images re-uploaded again and again.
Once installed only parts of the images rendered. After much experimentation I determined that some of the lines I used were too thin to display; others were only barely thick enough. I had to redo all of the faces, scale up the canvas, the images, and use thicker lines where possible. Work on the Radical Edward Pwnagotchi Custom-Faces entered its second day.
There were typos in the code on the Github repository, further complicating things.
ui.faces.look_r = "/custom-faces/LOOK-R.png"
ui.faces.look_l = "/custom-faces/LOOK-L.png"
ui.faces.look_r_happy = "/custom-faces/LOOK-R-HAPPY.png"
ui.faces.look_l_happy = "/custom-faces/LOOK-L-HAPPY.png"should read:
ui.faces.look_r = "/custom-faces/LOOK_R.png"
ui.faces.look_l = "/custom-faces/LOOK_L.png"
ui.faces.look_r_happy = "/custom-faces/LOOK_R_HAPPY.png"
ui.faces.look_l_happy = "/custom-faces/LOOK_L_HAPPY.png"The erroneous code uses dashes whereas the corrected code uses underscores. This is in keeping with the prescribed naming conventions for the images. Your mileage may vary, but in my instance using the original code meant that the otherwise corresponding images were never called and instead defaulted to AWAKE.png. If you’re using the Custom-Faces Mod and your pwnpet never looks left or right or displays an image’s path rather than an image, consider correcting this code in config.toml.
Eventually I got the images to install, render, and I was happy-ish with the result! They still need some tweaking, but I plan to release the image files, an installation tutorial, and the secret project featurette soon (hopefully next week). Only then will I consider the Radical Edward Pwnagotchi Custom-Faces Mod complete! In the meantime, be sure to check out recent cyberspacemanmike videos and posts! Thanks! And special thanks to roodriiigooo for the mod and help with troubleshooting!