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Where Emilee Johnson Tries to Make Almost Anything

Interface and Application Programming

Project Update: This week I was still doing some work on my code in Processing and Arduino. My LED Matrix came in and the driver chips don't match what a lot of other people who have done this project have, so I am having to work out a lot of those differences in my code. I'm having some issues getting the Bluetooth up, so I may end up scraping that for now.

So this assignment I kept it pretty simple. My input and output all comes out of my own computer. I decided to make a GUI that connects to Twitter and allows people to post to a 'public' twitter. I think it could be useful if you wanted to crowd source people's thoughts on what's going on, or to get people to share information within some sort of designated radius but wanted to simplify it so that you can have these sharing terminals without needing to worry about computer security as much. It's just a much simpler interface that can be locked to the screen.


Project 11a
Please don't steal those keys and play with the Twitter account.....in any case at least you can see how this works. It's a public account to my junk email address with a generic password anyway, so don't get excited about having the 'keys'....anyway, as you can see I did this all in Python. Pretty simple code, and it uses Tkinter which you have to download and call import into Python when you want to use it.
Project 11b
Project 11c
Picture of the GUI. It's not super pretty....I think that's more a consequence of my lack of artistic creativity than my coding abilities. Tkinter and such are actually great and very simple to use.
Project 11d
Screenshot of the Twitter newsfeed. I'm just going to add by the way that I don't have a personal Twitter....honestly I hate the idea of it. But it's incredibly popular and I acknowledge that many people find use in it, so that's why I went with it for this week.