Andrew Healey 4/10/2020

Twitter Ticker Tape with a POS58 Receipt Printer

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This technical tutorial details a DIY project that prints a live Twitter home timeline to a POS58 thermal receipt printer. It covers overcoming driver issues on a Raspberry Pi, using the Tweepy Python library to poll the Twitter API, and writing code to format and print tweets, creating a screen-free way to read social media updates.

Twitter Ticker Tape with a POS58 Receipt Printer

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