{"id":17418,"date":"2017-08-02T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17418"},"modified":"2017-08-02T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T09:11:58","slug":"does-whatever-a-spider-can-spiderman-twitter-monitor-using-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17418","title":{"rendered":"Does whatever a spider can&#8230; Spiderman Twitter monitor using a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spiderman.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17419\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spiderman.jpg?resize=449%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spiderman.jpg?w=449&amp;ssl=1 449w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spiderman.jpg?resize=300%2C130&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spiderman.jpg?resize=260%2C112&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spiderman.jpg?resize=160%2C69&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maker and Educator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/makercupboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spencer Organ<\/a> has recently re-launched his website and can now be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themakercupboard.space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.themakercupboard.space<\/a>. As part of the re-launch, he&#8217;s blogged about his latest project &#8211; a Spiderman-themed lamp which changes colour when he is mentioned in a Tweet. He&#8217;s used the <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/products\/blinkt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pimoroni Blinkt<\/a>\u00a0for illumination (<a href=\"https:\/\/thepihut.com\/products\/blinkt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also available here<\/a>) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twython.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twython<\/a>\u00a0Python library to communicate with Twitter. Everything&#8217;s connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero W for connectivity. A very nice project that shows what you can do with a little bit of programming and some know-how. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themakercupboard.space\/projects\/pi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take a look at the code and build details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maker and Educator Spencer Organ has recently re-launched his website and can now be found at\u00a0www.themakercupboard.space. As part of the re-launch, he&#8217;s blogged about his latest project &#8211; a Spiderman-themed lamp which changes colour when he is mentioned in a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17418\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[2,54,20,26,50,39,49],"tags":[298,486],"class_list":["post-17418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-accessories","category-gpio-boards","category-internet-of-things","category-making","category-programming","category-software","tag-twitter","tag-twython"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Does whatever a spider can... 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