tweet-based physical interactive thing A.Lewis. Started January 2014
The eventual out come of this will be to provide the brains for a physical interactive. The intention is to create a self-contained unit using a Raspberry Pi running Python to access web data from Google, Twitter as required and manipulate and store it.
A python web server will run on the Pi (simpleserver.py) (this is needed to load local files stored in same directory as localhost/
Additionally a harvesting python script (getTweetsBespoke.py) loads admin settings from Google Drive (publishing to the web as .txt)
getTweetsBespoke uses these settings to make a call to the twitter API using OAUTH (using twitter app keys etc)
It saves an initial dump of n tweets (m-max = 100) as a text file of n lines of JSON
It saves a separate JSON file (lasttweet.JSON) with the last retrieved tweet in it
A html5 page creates the visual display using
more to follow...
Actual final concept and shape of the interactive tbc.