SMS/Email/Twitter to eticker board

[theparanoidpickaxe]

Hey,
I am looking for a solution using Python and a RPi to convert either SMS messages, emails or tweets with a hashtag to a print out on a ticker board. I have some coding experience, but what should I do?
Thanks
Jonathan

[elParaguayo]

The biggest risk is you try to do too much too soon.

Break your task down into separate, smaller, distinct tasks.

• Make a script that just retrieves emails
• One that gets tweets
• One that gets sms (you may need some hardware to do this)
• For each of these, just print the output to the screen
• Then work out how to do your ticker - e.g. have you got a monitor/display you'd like to use? If so, get used to writing code for it
• Only once your comfortable with all of the above should you start pulling it all together

For the first 3 I suspect there will be plenty of python code examples to get you started. If you get stuck, post some code here and people will help out.

Good luck!

[DougieLawson]

You can reuse some of the programs here: https://github.com/adafruit/Python-Thermal-Printer
http://learn.adafruit.com/pi-thermal-printer

[theparanoidpickaxe]

Thanks for all the help. I would like to use Twitter as a base. I have found "tweepy", but I am having difficulty setting up.
I am using Fedora 20, but want it to run on Fedora Remix on the pi.