Developing a Twitter-controlled Raspberry Pi camera

In today's connected world, you want to access all of your things from everywhere. In Chapter 4, Getting into Robotics, you developed one such project where you can access and control your robot from anywhere using any devices. In this section, you will develop a Twitter-enabled Raspberry Pi camera, which will take a picture whenever you want to just by tweeting it.

Setting up

Before you start developing a Twitter-enabled Raspberry Pi camera, you need to have a Python library for accessing Twitter API on your Raspberry Pi, and of course, a few developer keys. The user has to send a direct message to the application developer, and then, it will analyze the direct message. If the direct message is ...

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