For:catherine.oehlman. Tweet-a-whatever (tweet-a-w/e) foundation. My explanation of the tweet-a-w/e ran pretty long in my last post.
I took an Asus wl-520gu wireless router, installed OpenWrt, Python, and an Xbee to build the foundation of a tweet-a-whatever (tweet-a-w/e). My 13 year-old texting obsessed daughter choose that name BTW. The last post ran so long that I cut it off after I talked about how to read the serial port with pySerial. This time, I'll explain a simple Python app that receives a string from a Xbee, decodes its header and then tweets the payload to a twitter account. I'm a complete Python newb so if you have suggestions on a better implementation, I'm all ears.