2nd June
Aloha from Hawaii
Aloha, I've just arrrived in Honolulu after participating a week long Clinic in Maui.
I'm travelling light with just a CC3000 with Fraunchpad and this means that I can only work on the the protocol sections of the project.
(From now on Big UNIT = CC3000 + Fraunchpad + my interface circuits and Baby UNIT = CC3000 + Fraunchpad)
Here's me and Baby UNIT standing on a porch of the same building as Jack Lord did for Hawaii Five 0!!
Book em Danno!
For clarity, I shall concentrate on completing the Talking Deer toy
Stage one is to have an LCD display an incoming Twitter Message.
The toy will poll the Internet periodically for any new activity.
If any new messages have arrived, the Toy will turn on and display the message on the LCD.
Unlike the demonstration software which uses a PC to provide complex oAuth interfacing to Twitter, I am taking an alternative to remove the need for the PC.
The original Twitter logon procedure required just a username and password but this was changed with oAuth to improve security.
Although this improves security it is a more complex process and as a guess the MSP430FRAM5739 won't have enough memory to contain the interface code.
Supertweet by @mrblog is a proxy server that allows you to use the original Twitter authentication process with redirection with oAuth authentication to the real Twitter service.
You can use their server or download and run your own Supertweet proxy server.
Have a look at Supertweet.net for all the information.
I'll keep you all posted of my progress.
