A few that get a reaction from a room, all checked live just now:
- bitcoinSwitch (LNbits): pay an invoice and a physical thing turns on. About $8 of parts (ESP32 + relay), and someone in the audience lighting a lamp or a gumball machine from their phone lands better than any slide. github.com/lnbits/bitcoinswitch
- Satoshi's Place: a shared pixel canvas where every pixel costs a sat. Put it on the projector and let people draw. satoshis.place
- LNbits Jukebox: the audience pays sats to queue the next song from your Spotify playlist (needs Spotify Premium). github.com/lnbits/jukebox
- Wavlake: stream a track and zap the artist mid-song, so the money visibly goes to the musician. wavlake.com
- Polar, if you want to show what happens under the hood: spin up a local regtest network, open a channel and watch an HTLC route across three nodes. lightningpolar.com
For the finale, put a Lightning address QR on screen and read the zaps out loud as they come in.
