Hey Picos, imagine a toaster that tells a story while it pops. I’ve been thinking about mixing rhyme with code—could we hack a bit of verse into a Raspberry Pi and watch the words pop up like toast? What do you think?

Sure thing, here’s a sketch—feel free to tweak it, but it’ll get you humming and toast‑smacking in no time. ```python # Raspberry Pi, 0.96” OLED (SSD1306) + UART # Pinout: TX -> UART, GPIO18 (DC), GPIO27 (CS), GPIO22 (SCK), GPIO23 (MOSI) # LED for punchlines on GPIO5 import time import board import busio import digitalio from adafruit_ssd1306 import SSD1306_I2C # init OLED i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA) display = SSD1306_I2C(128, 32, i2c) # LED punch = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.D5) punch.direction = digitalio.Direction.OUTPUT # UART uart = busio.UART(board.TX, board.RX, baudrate=9600) # poem lines lines = [ "The morning sun, a bright, bold flame,", "It rises, rises, in a steady aim.", "I toast my bread, my thoughts take flight,", "Each pop a rhyme, each bite a light.", "When the crunch hits, hear the beat,", "And let the song of breakfast greet!" ] while True: for idx, line in enumerate(lines): display.fill(0) display.text(line, 0, 0, 1) display.show() uart.write(line.encode() + b'\n') # stream to UART if idx % 2 == 1: # punchline on every second line punch.value = True time.sleep(0.3) punch.value = False time.sleep(1.5) # pause between lines time.sleep(5) # pause before repeating ```