{"id":2152,"date":"2009-07-28T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T22:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:05","slug":"david-nichols-tweetster-a-wireless-tweets-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/david-nichols-tweetster-a-wireless-tweets-display\/","title":{"rendered":"David Nichols&#8217; Tweetster, a wireless Twitter display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2009\/07\/tweetster_-_wireless_tweets_display.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tweetster2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotmatrixdesign.net\/\">David Nichols<\/a> made this awesome wireless twitter display by combining a hacked <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/detailed-specs-for-the-asus-wl-520gu-uber-hacking-platform\/\">Asus WL-520gU wireless router<\/a> with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\">Sparkfun<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/commerce\/product_info.php?products_id=9069\">serial-enabled LCD display<\/a>.\u00a0 The router is running the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openwrt.org\">OpenWrt<\/a> distribution I used for my <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/wifiradio\/\">Wifi Radio project<\/a>, plus a USB thumbdrive that provides some additional flash storage space.\u00a0 I really like the custom laser cut base that holds the LCD display and the router!<\/p>\n<p>For more pics and info, check out David&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/davidnin\/sets\/72157621842283574\/\">flickr set<\/a> for the project.<\/p>\n<p>via Make: Online &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2009\/07\/tweetster_-_wireless_tweets_display.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890\">Tweetster &#8211; Wireless tweets display<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Nichols made this awesome wireless twitter display by combining a hacked Asus WL-520gU wireless router with a Sparkfun serial-enabled LCD display.\u00a0 The router is running the same OpenWrt distribution I used for my Wifi Radio project, plus a USB thumbdrive that provides some additional flash storage space.\u00a0 I really like the custom laser cut &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/david-nichols-tweetster-a-wireless-tweets-display\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Nichols&#8217; Tweetster, a wireless Twitter display<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,25,129,191,81,264,123],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asus","tag-hack","tag-python","tag-twitter","tag-usb","tag-wireless-router","tag-wl-520gu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-yI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":470,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/detailed-specs-for-the-asus-wl-520gu-uber-hacking-platform\/","url_meta":{"origin":2152,"position":0},"title":"Detailed specs for the Asus WL-520GU uber hacking platform","author":"Jeff","date":"October 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In my previous post about the Wifi Radio project I'm working on, I concluded that the Asus WL-520GU wireless router was the perfect choice for an embedded wireless platform, thanks to its builtin 802.11g WiFi, Linux support, and extremely low cost. 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