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The #twatch grabs the latest trending topics from Twitter, then loads a few tweets for each. The trending topics and tweets scroll on a screen. The #twatch grabs fresh trends and tweets every five minutes so you always see the latest trending topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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This is not the first exciting project we worked with former Hackaday editor Ian Lesnet,\u00a0 you may remember the two bus pirate v2 pre-orders. It was quite an exiciting omni-potent tool with complete documentation and continous upgrade. They were sold like hot cakes, we drained all the stock from Digikey, Mouser and Farnell, but the shortage of ICs delayed the second batch for about 4 weeks…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/banner-twatch-6.jpg\" "\\"banner-twatch-6\\"")
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