This is awesome! Great example app for the Zinc API.<p>Now you just need to integrate with those smart fridges so an order with Amazon Fresh is automatically placed when I run low on something.
Cute!<p>You can get a significantly higher resolution with Unicode Block Elements[1] and a half tone foreground-background algorithm.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements</a>
Why does this even access a server (i.e. the hosted zinc api)? This could be done purely on the client side (= better privacy, security and performance), so I assume it's because zinc wants to add its affiliate id and earn a commission.
I don't mean to use HN like SO but I keep getting the error:<p>"IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/private/tmp/pip-build-root/zinc/setup.py'"<p>Any idea why this might be? Looks awesome and wish I could try it!
The install failed from PyPI using pip. Missing setup.py. Works fine from github though.
<a href="https://github.com/wangjohn/zinc_cli/archive/master.tar.gz" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/wangjohn/zinc_cli/archive/master.tar.gz</a>
Does this only support Python 2? I'm fully updated for pip, but I had to put it in a virtualenv and point it to python 2. You might want to mention that if it doesn't support 3.