{"id":58544,"date":"2012-03-23T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2012\/03\/pinboard-bookmarks-for-march-22nd\/"},"modified":"2012-03-23T20:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:00:41","slug":"pinboard-bookmarks-for-march-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2012\/03\/pinboard-bookmarks-for-march-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarks for March 22nd through March 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are my links for March 22nd through March 23rd:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2012\/02\/27\/display-twitter-on-an-arduino\/\">Display Twitter on an Arduino &#8211; Hack a Day<\/a> &#8211; The SocialBot9000, as [Chris] calls his build, is an Arduino Uno connected to an Ethernet shield and an LCD character display. The firmware uses the Twitter API&nbsp;to search for recent posts containing the phrase, &lsquo;socialbot9000.&rsquo; A PHP script on the Arduino does all the heavy lifting and with the great Bildr tutorial&nbsp;on getting the Ethernet shield up and running<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arduino.cc\/playground\/Interfacing\/Python\">Arduino playground &#8211; Python<\/a> &#8211; Arduino and Python Talking to Arduino over a serial interface is pretty trivial in Python. On Unix-like systems you can read and write to the serial device as if it were a file, but there is also a wrapper library called pySerial that works well across all operating systems.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lemonodor.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/arduino_serial.html\">Lemonodor: arduino_serial<\/a> &#8211; arduino_serial.py is a Python port of Tod E. Kurt&#039;s arduino-serial.c program for communicating with an Arduino microcontroller board over a serial port. It only uses standard Python modules (notably termios and fcntl) and does not require any special serial communications modules.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/19\/amazon-com-buys-kiva-systems-for-775-million\/\">Amazon.com Buys Kiva Systems for $775 Million &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; &ldquo;Amazon has not had great margins,&rdquo; Jason Helfstein, an analyst at Oppenheimer &amp; Company. &ldquo;One has to believe they looked at this and thought, &lsquo;Why not just own it and take all the technology in house?&rsquo;&rdquo;  The acquisition comes as Amazon aggressively adds distribution centers to service its growing consumer base.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are my links for March 22nd through March 23rd: Display Twitter on an Arduino &#8211; Hack a Day &#8211; The SocialBot9000, as [Chris] calls his build, is an Arduino Uno connected to an Ethernet shield and an LCD character display. The firmware uses the Twitter API&nbsp;to search for recent posts containing the phrase, &lsquo;socialbot9000.&rsquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[459,42,602,934,15,126,682,26,663,745,742,933,503],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58904,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58544\/revisions\/58904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}