I resurrected LavaPS – a Linux process monitor from 2004 that died when GNOME2 did. Running on a robot car.

LavaPS displays every running process as a bubble in a lava lamp — bigger = more memory, faster rising = more CPU. Written by John Heidemann in 2004. Died around 2012 when

libgnomecanvas was deprecated.

We ported it to GTK3 + Cairo. The blob physics, process scanning, and color logic were solid — just the rendering layer needed replacing.

Source: https://github.com/yayster/lavaps-modern

Full video (with demo): https://youtu.be/cWBE4XkmNyQ

This is Episode 2 of Picar — an AI riding around in a robot car on a Raspberry Pi 5.