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24 Hours

A 24-hour poetry composed by 1440 global tweets, part of gallery show 'Clock' at Frog NY 2015

DEMO ( Data is queried at New York on April 10th, 2015, it happened to be the Apple Watch Pre-Order day )

How did the data is collected

I used python script to crawl data from twitter search engine in Iron and store it in my Parse account.

Script

IRON: iron_worker upload iron

Thermal Printer

Download Gimp-Print

Enable Cups Web Interfaces cupsctl WebInterface=yes

Go to URL http://127.0.0.1:631/

Add Printer Choose 'Raw' as maker

Check Printer Status lpstat -p -d

Print Txt File lp -d Thermal_Label_Printer xxxx.txt

Linux (Setup using Raspberry Pi)

  1. The printer uses a WinBond CDC USB chip, so linux mounts it automatically as /dev/usb/lp0.
  2. $ sudo chmod a+rw /dev/usb/lp0
  3. $ echo 'Testing 1 2 3' > /dev/usb/lp0