Show HN: Node.js, Twitter, Instagram-powered e-paper picture frame

http://www.visionect.com/blog/instagram-twitter-ifttt-e-paper-digital-signage/

by matevzmihalic • 12 years ago

42 6 12 years ago

NathanKP• 12 years ago

Very nice set up. I would probably just code it to hook up to an Instagram content and scrape the images directly instead of going through Twitter though.

DanAndersen• 12 years ago

True, though from the article, it sounds like they first set up Twitter integration and then added on Instagram to that as an evolutionary step.

luka-birsa2• 12 years ago

That's exactly how we went about it. We could do a full Instagram integration, but we never used IFTTT and it saved us some coding + kept the example codebase much simpler.

IFTTT does have downsides tho, very slow to push from Instagram to Twitter.

j_s• 12 years ago

$500 shipped

pldrnt• 12 years ago

I see it runs Linux, do you make the OS available?

luka-birsa2• 12 years ago

It doesn't run Linux - the devices themsleves run as a thin-clients, that connect to a server. The server converts webpages into data and streams them to the device.

The server is running vanilla Ubuntu with Visionect Packages.

Show HN: Node.js, Twitter, Instagram-powered e-paper picture frame

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