Laptopograms with iPhone
April 27, 2010 6:34 AM   Subscribe

Hello, after making Laptopograms with my Thinkpad, (see my Projects post) I would now like to make them with an iPhone or an iPod Touch. How do I do this on an iPhone or an iPod Touch?

I run Linux on my laptop. Here is the script I used to make my Laptopgrams:

#!/bin/sh
vbetool dpms on ; sleep 2.0; sudo vbetool dpms off

How do I do this on an iPhone or an iPod Touch?
posted by vostok to Media & Arts (3 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- jessamyn

 
If you want to run that shell script on an iPhone or iPod Touch you'll need to jailbreak the device and port vbetool to it.

If that particular script isn't critical to your plans, maybe you could say more about what needs to happen on the iPhone/iPod screen. Do you need a piece of software that gives you a black screen, then displays an image for a set amount of time, and then returns to a black screen? I don't know offhand of an app that does that, but there could very well be one or you could write one yourself.
posted by alms at 7:20 AM on April 27, 2010


Response by poster: alms: yes, exactly what you said. The script is not critical, I merely need to do what you said.

I've never written anything for the iPhone/iPod before, can someone help me out here?
posted by vostok at 7:23 AM on April 27, 2010


Searching the iTunes App Store for "Slide Show" returns about a hundred applications. I can't link to those search results, but here's one picked at random.

I would expect you'd be able to find a slide show or photo frame app that will show a series of images in a specified order with a specified amount of time for each image. You can then get the effect you want by sandwiching your target image between black images.
posted by alms at 7:48 AM on April 27, 2010


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