This is a small Python application which displays tweets on an eInk display connected to a Raspberry Pi. It is designed to run on the Waveshare 2.13" display which is available as a pHAT and is almost exactly the same size as the Pi Zero.

The application fetches local Twitter trends and displays the top tweets for each trend.

This application uses the Twitter API so you'll need a set of API Keys and Access Token in order to run it.

The application expects the following environment variables containing the Twitter API credentials:

python -m twitter_trends to run in test mode. This will output a file containing an image of what would be displayed on the eInk screen.

python -m twitter_trends -epaper to run in epaper mode on the Raspberry Pi with an attached eInk display.

The video below demonstrates the code running on a Raspberry PI Zero W. This video is running at 5x normal speed.