An elephant being eaten by a snake: Easter eggs on your Pi

Grab your Raspberry Pi, everyone — we’re going on an Easter egg hunt, and all of you are invited!

Voilà, a terminal window!

When they’re not chocolate, Easter eggs are hidden content in movies, games, DVD menus, and computers. So open a terminal window and try the following:

1. A little attitude

Type aptitude moo into the terminal window and press Enter. Now type aptitude -v moo. Keep adding v’s, like this: aptitude -vv moo

2. Party

Addicted to memes? Type curl parrot.live into your window!

3. In a galaxy far, far away…

You’ll need to install telnet for this one: start by typing sudo apt-get install telnet into the terminal. Once it’s installed, enter telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

4. Pinout

Type pinout into the window to see a handy GPIO pinout diagram for your Pi. Ideal for physical digital making projects!

5. Demo programs

Easter egg-ish: you can try out various demo programs on your Raspberry Pi, such as 1080p video playback and spinning teapots.

Any more?

There’s lots of fun to be had in the terminal of a Raspberry Pi. Do you know any other fun Easter eggs? Share them in the comments!

13 comments

*mumbles something about konami codes and NOOBS*

Two of my favourites are, in a Python shell, try:

>>> import antigravity

and

>>> import this

from __future__ import braces

Type in the terminal window:
sudo apt-get moo
;P

Kids in our workshop love to let the Steam locomotive run. Just type “sudo apt-get install sl” and then type “sl”.

Also a great command is ‘gti’ (works analogously, only for git)

I can not figer out out how to install gti!

This one: https://www.pcorner.com/list/aos/xroach.zip/INFO was always mildly amusing

try ‘import antigravity’ in a python shell

One of my favourite is the Excel 97 Flight simulator
https://www.eggheaven.com/eggs/software/137-excel.html

If you fly around enough you will see scrolling credits for the developers.

There’s also a Google doodle that’s a working PAC-MAN game!
https://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anniversary-of-pac-man

From comments by Marcin Wichary, senior UX designer and developer:

“Google doodler Ryan Germick and I made sure to include PAC-MAN’s original game logic, graphics and sounds, bring back ghosts’ individual personalities, and even recreate original bugs from this 1980’s masterpiece. We also added a little easter egg: if you throw in another coin, Ms. PAC-MAN joins the party and you can play together with someone else (PAC-MAN is controlled with arrow keys or by clicking on the maze, Ms. PAC-MAN using the WASD keys).”

There is Minesweeper in Aptitude.

aptitude
Ctrl+T
p

Use arrow keys to move. Use Enter to test. Use f to mark a mine. See https://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s06.html

Pinout worked when i dragged the window onto the desktop..but the section on top of the pinout did not detect the integrated bluetooth or wifi on my pi 3b+.said false to both.
Says revision a020d3

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