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#twatch Open Hardware Networked LCD Screen
An anonymous reader writes "Dangerous Prototype's #twatch is a DIY network appliance that displays real-time topic trends from Twitter. It can also show system statistics, RSS feeds, mail notifications, and more using a TCP server on port 1337 that accepts commands from LCD control programs like LCD Smartie (Windows) and LCDproc (Linux). Everything you need to build your own is on the project's page. We've covered this hardware hacker's work previously."
Best way to monitor twitter is to pipe to /dev/null.
Port 1337? Seriously? Stop being cute, and use a standard port number.
Make sure UDP/TCP port 1337 is firewalled on our network.
#DeleteChrome
Did all of slashdot just get trolled? April isn't until next year...
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This is one of those things where I would say, "that's pretty cool you made it, but why?"
I think using the web site and seeing the trends over in the right column is good enough for probably 99.8% of Twitter users. Even the geeks like us.
I run Ubuntu skinned to look like a Mac on a PC. Go figure.
The Twatch?
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I wonder where they snatched that name from. Hopefully I can get an answer from the community; it would suck if the moderators muffed them...
I'll be first in line to pay for the #TWAT CHannel!
As a steampunk project, I've restored a Teletype Model 15, which, running uncased so you can see the insides, is an impressive piece of machinery. I have this connected to a program that polls any desired collection of RSS feeds and prints any new items that come in. Running off Reuters or the NPR news feed, it emulates a classic news ticker.
I've tried giving it a list of Twitter RSS feeds. Works fine, looks stupid. For each new twit, the motor winds up to speed, 50 pounds of machinery grinds into life, and with much clattering and banging, the machine hammers out some banal twit on a long roll of yellow paper. Twitter content is just too lame for this. Hooked to the Reuters feed, at least you get the feeling that you're keeping up with what's going on in the world. Not with Twitter.
(Incidentally, Twitter's server-side RSS implementation sucks. RSS feed servers are supposed to accept a query with a number obtained from the previous query, and if the numbers match, it means nothing changed and no new text is transmitted. Twitter implements that so badly that every poll results in transmitting the entire RSS content again, even if nothing changed. Most other RSS feeds, such as Reuters, more or less get this right.)
the posted article is PIC based. some people like PICs.
I happen to prefer arduinos (atmel). and here's my first effort (collaborated with a friend) called LCDuino-1:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/linux-works/3939835161/
beta-test boards have been sent out and once the beta period is over (and all builders report success in the design/layout) we'll produce them in quantity. we are also planning on having partial and maybe full kits to help DIYers build this quickly and easily.
firmware is open source, of course.
ethernet is planned but as a daughter card or 'shield'. there is a small proto-hole area to the right where custom app-specific components/soldering can be done. the form factor is made to exactly fit behind a standard hitachi 2x16 LCD display.
(I initially needed one of these for my DIY audiophile work; but after hand building about 4 of these things, I finally got serious enough to work on the PC board and get some made. hopefully they will be useful to the arduino and DIY community, too.)
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Twatch, the waterproof watch/portable porn service.
I'd love to have one of those small LCD picture frames to run a live "buzzing right now" display from Twitscoop.
If only they were POE.
In my office building we have 9+ conference rooms. Booking a room is often a challenge given how many people are trying to get into them. And sometime, you just need a room for a few minutes for a conference call. Every morning the receptionists have to print out schedules and walk to each room to post their schedules. If those schedules change at all, it's highly unlikely that the sheets will get updated.
If, for less than $500 in materials and a day of labor we could have digital displays and an easy way to update each of outputs from the receptionist desk, it could save quite a lot of hassle.
Even with out the POE, I might still pitch the idea to my boss.
-Rick
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Like, seriously, as in right now, not in a year, not in a few months, right now.
The site is already barely functional at times, eating up posts, annihilating user's avatars and just plain not loading.
You've given the twittersphere dedicated screen time. We'll never hear the end of it now.
/ Get of my lawn you twats.
well, at least it's appropriately named.
Not "does it run Linux", but rather "will it work with Linux?"
It seems that the app used to bridge serial over network (similar to PPPOE in concept?) is windows-based.
"Weâ(TM)re using Windows, so we grabbed the freeware version of Virtual Serial Port Emulator, a simple port redirector. If you have Linux or OSX suggestions, please leave them in the comments"
Does anyone know a working method to create a network-bound serial port for 'nix? It looks like a fair bit of stuff could be done with the "matrix Orbital-style LCD commands" sent no the listening port, but I'd prefer to interface directly with the LCD if possible.
Gadgets like this are always useful. When it eventually break up, you can still throw it at a dog.
If this is cheap and easy enough, it'd make a very handy always-on "now playing" display for Spotify/iTunes/XBMC/whatever. Most of these have hooks you could hack something onto to update a display.
I've been meaning to ask this for a while, but are there networked screens that work on Linux ? Usable both as a secondary screen on a charger/holder and in bed on battery and touchscreen. Do they go through the available wifi or through some special wireless (like keyboards and mice) ?
Non-Linux Penguins ?
among which are
- Jay-Z (since i don't know when)
- Keisha (wtf is keisha?)
- MySpace
Well, it isn't exactly classy for a legitimate net app to want port 1337 allocated to them, but it is already unofficially assigned. Although the allocation is not yet official, there is already a conflict of applications using the port:
1337/TCP PowerFolder P2P Encrypted File Synchronization Program (Unofficial)
1337/TCP WASTE Encrypted File Sharing Program (Unofficial)
Just pick something not used, sheesh.
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