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Comment on Tickertweet by Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:37:13 +0000

Any updates to this project, Riney?

Comment on Tickertweet by riney

riney — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:10:03 +0000

Adrian- Just plain old thermal receipt paper.
RATz – thanks for reminding me. I’ll slap the code up on github. It’s not pretty, and has a fair number of dependencies, but it’d be a good starting point.

Comment on Tickertweet by RATz

RATz — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:44:52 +0000

Hey man,
Love the idea!! I have a group at my school that would love to use this! could you maybe send us off the application to run it?

Comment on Tickertweet by Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:34:59 +0000

Do you use Dymo continuous paper roll, or simple thermal paper?

Comment on Tickertweet by Me

Me — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:33:05 +0000

Can it run with Windows?
Can it check for trending tweets and tweets from certain users?

Comment on About by riney

riney — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:28:00 +0000

I can’t find any references that say that this frame has Chumby heritage. It looks to be an Insignia branded OEM photo frame. I have one with Aptiva branding that looks remarkably similar.

Comment on About by max

max — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:15:08 +0000

hi Mike

Will the chumby hack work on the Insignia™ 9″ Widescreen LCD Digital Photo Frame – Black/Silver

Model: NS-DPF9G

http://insigniaproducts.com/products/cameras-camcorders-photo-frames/NS-DPF9G.html

Comment on Tickertweet by riney

riney — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:17:46 +0000

Absolutely. When I release more info, I’ll post it here, on Youtube, and Twitter (@riney). Thanks!

Comment on Tickertweet by riney

riney — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:17:05 +0000

Absolutely! Maybe not with Instructables themselves (so many ads!) but I’ll do another video and a more in-depth blog post.

Arduino would be at least theoretically doable, but being able to leverage a full UNIX environment made things a loooooooot faster. Without Ruby, the Twitter and RMagick libraries, the open-source printer control program, and the factory drivers, not to mention USB support from the OS, you’d have to do a lot more low level coding to make things work. Doing antialiased TrueType font rendering on an 8-bit microcontroller isn’t my idea of a good time

Now that’s not to say that you couldn’t do a simpler version. If you could find a text-only printer with a serial interface, that would simplify the task a great deal.

Comment on Tickertweet by Wunderstruck

Wunderstruck — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:11:28 +0000

Brilliant! I teach both art and communication technology in high school and would love to use this setup with the students to create some interesting media art. If possible could you please let me know when you release the code and if I can get further details?
Its quite a fun project.
TD