Impressive Fun Projects That Every Developer Should See

Programmers recreate memorable old things just for fun, and those projects can impress every programmer in the world

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Programmers do various sorts of hobbies when they get free time. Some programmers like to play musical instruments. Meanwhile, some programmers enjoy watching movies, tech talks, and documentaries. However, every programmer likes to experiment and write some code just for fun. The following tech-projects are done by programmers just for fun. But, these tech projects undoubtedly can impress any programmer in the world.

ASCIImation

A digital video has a set of frames and those frames are displayed in chronological order to make moving objects in the video. Also, each frame is made out of pixels that have different color values. Similarly, the ASCIImation concept has a set of frames that are made with ASCII characters. Each ASCII-based frame is played chronologically to produce the animation called ASCIImation. The developer of this concept made the ASCIImation version of the Star Wars movie to demonstrate how it works.

ASCIImation, screen-recording by the author

Of course, each frame consists of a set of ASCII characters as shown below.

Two frames of an ASCIImation movie, screenshot by the author

Full source frames of the Star Wars ASCIImation movie can be found here. Also, this can be played with the following telnet command.

$ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Webamp

I can remember how I played music files around 11 years ago using Winamp which had various sorts of graphical skins. But now, we do all the things including listening to music using the web browser. We all could still remember Winamp and I am pretty sure that a few people still use it happily. A programmer made a web version of Winamp and named it Webamp by adding almost all the basic features we used in the past. Furthermore, Webamp supports Winamp skins that…