Teletext finally disappeared from our television screens this month, leaving us to fondly recall those pre-internet days when we waited for football scores to update on our television screens.
However, as we’ve come to appreciate over the last few years, there’s no obsolete tech a Raspberry Pi user can’t resurrect with a bit of elbow grease and ingenuity.
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Mark Pentler turned his Twitter timeline into a Teletext-like feed using his Raspberry Pi and a specially-designed Raspi-Teletext script.
Read your Twitter timeline and turn it into teletext pages for your Raspberry Pi with a little help from @markpentlerhttps://t.co/veprpgU1UX pic.twitter.com/dGMsHNAuzu
— Raspberry Pi (@Raspberry_Pi) January 24, 2018
The feed will update by grabbing 5 new tweets every 60 seconds, with Mark saying he plans to make this user configurable in the future.
Unfortunately, emojis and special characters “destroy” the layout of the page and long tweets are a no-go (damn you, 280 characters!) but the developer is working on that.
“Apart from those notes, things should work ok. Have fun, turn back the clock, and if you genuinely use this for anything please let me know (also you’re mental/cool).”
It was a throwaway line on @tvforum that started this idea off an a weekend of work gave me a working prototype – it doesn’t do long tweets and emojis make it shit the bed right now. Be aware!
— Mark Pentler (@markpentler) January 24, 2018
Mark has posted the instructions and code on his Github page, so providing you have a Raspberry Pi and a monitor, what’s old can be new again.
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