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Written by Nat'n
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
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 I am playing around with Yahoo pipes to create input for my LED sign project. I want the sign to display text, but in an almost ambient way. The text should appear mostly anonymous and somewhat random, but related to realtime events. As a first attempt I created a Yahoo Pipe that takes my own Twitter stream and those of my friends, only allows one entry from any person, strips off the sender name and produces a very simple RSS feed with only a title attribute. Nothing else because the sign will only display the title information. For additional realtime wierdness I added the public Twitter feed, but reduced it to keywords only, no actual text, just extracted keywords. Basically it grabs random keywords from Twitter and sends them out as feed items. As a last convienence I added the current weather at my location to the feed.
Since my sign will be microcontroller based I want to transmit as little data as I can, so the feed is pretty stripped down. I will probably want to add some additional attributes down the road, but this seems like a pretty good start. You can see the pipe here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=3FQ2aDvp3BG_vN1tMlrX_Q
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 March 2008 )
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