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I forgot to point to a scrolling text utility I've been working on for the Eigenharp Alpha: https://github.com/Eigenlabs/EigenD-Contrib/blob/master/alpha_text_scroller.py

It displays and scrolls ASCII text on the Eigenharp Alpha keyboard. There are a number of formatting and configuration options included. I'll be folding parts of this back into EigenD, but as a web UI, not as a CLI tool. I thought that the Python version could be interesting to people still.

I'm using this with yet another script that imports the alpha_text_scroller functions and pulls down tweets in real time, scrolling them on the neck of the Alpha.

This is that script, using the tweepy Python library:

import tweepy

import re

import alpha_text_scroller



consumer_key="???"

consumer_secret="???"

access_token="???"

access_token_secret="???"



auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)

auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)



api = tweepy.API(auth)



mentions = []

options = alpha_text_scroller.DisplayOptions(9091, speed=1.5)

count = 0

while True:

    if len(mentions) == 0:

        for m in api.mentions(count=5):

            mentions.append('@'+m.user.screen_name+': '+re.sub('@\\w+\\s*','',m.text.strip()))

        mentions.reverse()



    count += 1

    countmod = count % 2 

    if countmod == 1:

        options.colour = 'R'

    elif countmod == 0:

        options.colour = 'O'



    text = mentions.pop()

    print text

    alpha_text_scroller.scroll('\s{24}'+text, options)