{"id":11629,"date":"2014-12-16T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T09:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11629"},"modified":"2014-12-16T09:55:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T09:55:01","slug":"glowing-twitter-beacon-uses-the-raspberry-pi-and-pibrella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11629","title":{"rendered":"Glowing Twitter beacon uses the Raspberry Pi and Pibrella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rigb.org\/about\/organisation\/team\/schools-and-christmas-lectures\/kate-mulcahy\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Mulcahy<\/a> from The Royal Institution has developed a cool little beacon that lights up whenever the Twitter hashtag #XMASLECTURES is used.\u00a0She&#8217;s done this to help someone at the Institution who has an obsession over checking the hashtag. <a href=\"http:\/\/rigb.org\/christmas-lectures\/sparks-will-fly\/things-with-stuff\/twitter-emblem\" target=\"_blank\">All the instructions and code are available as a tutorial from The Royal Insitution website<\/a>. 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All the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11629\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,50,39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-techiness","category-making","category-programming","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Glowing Twitter beacon uses the Raspberry Pi and Pibrella - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11629\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Glowing Twitter beacon uses the Raspberry Pi and Pibrella - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kate Mulcahy from The Royal Institution has developed a cool little beacon that lights up whenever the Twitter hashtag #XMASLECTURES is used.\u00a0She&#8217;s done this to help someone at the Institution who has an obsession over checking the hashtag. 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