A piece of ‘art’ or possibly a data-visualisation tool for the living room
Uses the Twitter library to search for twelve phrases in Tweets worldwide and display a count .
Imp does all the work, searches Twitter, drives LED ring and strands and TFT displays (via I2C) also plays sounds effects using a RS232 SD card MP3 player.
Now, to find a use for it 
That’s… rather cool. Would be even better if you could PWM the LCD backlights so they’d pulse smoothly instead of flash… but I guess that’s part of the I2C controller?
Thanks Hugo. I am using PWM on the backlights , I’m just switching it between two values rather than ramping up and down. But I agree it would look cooler if the back lights ‘throbbed’ rather than flashed I’ll get right on it. I’d quite like to use better displays (these were cheap) I’ve got some 128x160 colour TFT displays which I’ll try out.
I was inspired by this guy http://www.jordanburnett.co.uk/work/tweetlamps/ he used an Apple MAC . His install went to the Mad Museum in Stratford on Avon but ceased to work a couple of years ago. I replaced the MAC with an Imp and fixed it for them . Its been functioning for a year without problem. http://themadmuseum.co.uk/april-newsletter/
I’d like to try and make some money from these sort of projects (hence my query about licencing in the general forum)
Looks great! I remember seeing the tweet lamps at MAD, maybe before you upgraded them though. Very cool museum.