RPI Tweet Monitor

A hardware based project that runs a Node Red flow to scrape twitter for posts with certain hashtags.


What it does

Tweets are ranked by sentiment and an LED traffic light lights up momentarily, depending on the sentiment. The tweet, author and account image is then displayed on a front end. A PI Hat/ Colour LCD screen loops an animated gif.


The tweets themselves are stored in a MongoDb which feeds the front end, which refreshes itself every few seconds.


This page is not intended to be a tutorial but rather listing and showing things that are not deployed publicly.

The Hardware

  1. A Raspberry Pi 2
  2. Breakout Garden for Raspberry Pi (I2C + SPI)
  3. 0.96" SPI Colour LCD (160x80) Breakout
  4. PiStop - Traffic Light Add-on for Raspberry Pi
The Hardware Setup
It doesn't fit in its case anymore...

LCD Display

The display on the LCD

Node Red Flow

Node Red Flow

The Frontend

Twitter Monitor Front End

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