We’re really excited about the #twatch preorder. Yesterday was a great day for the #twatch, Seeed Studio added a few extra to their store. Thank you for your support! If things heat up, there’s a potential shortage of the PIC 18F67J60 chip we used. We built another #twatch using the slightly smaller PIC 18F66J65 chip […]
Category Archives: #twatch
Prototype: Network LCD backpack
The most recent documentation is now on the wiki. Character LCD screens that scroll information are a popular case mod. They’re usually controlled through a parallel port, serial port backpack, or USB backpack (more). This article demonstrates our open source ethernet network LCD backpack. LCD control programs like LCD Smartie (Windows) and LCDproc (Linux, OSX?) […]
Twitter scrolling picture frame
We posted brief instructions on how we put a #twatch into a picture frame. This was how we originally intended to launch the #twatch, but we forgot because we were so excited about our first full-length article. You can buy an assembled #twatch, with or without an LCD, starting at $30, including shipping.
Confessions of a prototyper: #twatch v1/v1b
Last week we released the #twatch v2, an ethernet backpack for 20×4 character LCDs. This wasn’t the only version of the #twatch that we designed. V2 is based on the slick, inexpensive, single-chip ethernet microcontroller, the PIC 18F67J60. The biggest downside to the 18f67J60 is that it can only be programmed an average of 100 […]
#twatch: Twitter changes JSON feed slightly
In an amazing coincidence, Twitter changed the JSON datafeeds the #twatch uses to grab the latest trending topics and tweets on the same night that we launched. They didn’t actually make significant changes, but they tweaked the order of variables in a way that confused the #twatch. {“text”:” The original search parser looked for the […]
Preorder the #twatch ethernet LCD backpack
**UPDATE** The #twatch will start shipping around October 10, 2009. The preorder is over, but there’s a few extra #twatches in the Seeed store for $45, including worldwide shipping. Get them while they last because we won’t make more soon. If you missed the #twatch, sign up here to be notified of any future #twatch […]
Prototype: Twitter Watcher, the #twatch
The most recent documentation is now on the wiki. The #twatch scrolls the latest trending topics from Twitter on an LCD screen. It’s a stand-alone network appliance that stays updated without a PC. It was awesome to watch #iranelection, Michael Jackson, and other historic events scroll by while we developed the #twatch. This article documents […]