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Use a Raspberry Pi, (or any computer) to make a talking clock that reads your twitter feed at regular intervals.

This is the code for the MakerBar Class "Raspberry Python - Talking Clock," more details are available here:
http://www.meetup.com/MakerBar/events/99976032/

Slides are available here:
http://prezi.com/kiw1tqx-232o/raspberry-python-talking-clock/?kw=view-kiw1tqx-232o&rc=ref-13789087

This code lives here:
https://github.com/Ciemaar/RaspberryPython-TalkingClock

--- Setup ---

1.  Install the latest version of Raspian to your Pi.
1b.  Be sure to set locale and timezone in raspi-config
2.  Copy all this code to the /home/pi directory.
3.  sudo apt-get install espeak python-espeak python-setuptools
4.  sudo easy_install python-twitter
5.  Apply as a twitter developer to get a set of keys, replace the example keys in clock.cfg
6.  run crontab -e to edit your crontab file so the clock speaks at regular intervals, use crontab.lst as a guide.

Copyright 2013 Andy Fundinger - [email protected]