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

• NathanKP 13y 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 13y 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-birsa 13y 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 13y ago
  $500 shipped
• pldrnt 13y ago
  I see it runs Linux, do you make the OS available?
  • luka-birsa 13y 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.