[GreenKeys] Speaking about ITTY...

[Jeff G]

In regards to the comment about using Twilio - rather than host a lamp
stack in a cloud server, you can just run the code on an actual Raspberry
PI (or any other computer really). I have a Twilio account and interact
with it exclusively from Powershell on Windows, and even then it's
literally only a few lines of code.

If there were an easy interface (perhaps that mini-modem) to interact with
the Teletype, then perhaps a simple CLI for sending texts could be
implemented easily using Twilio, or perhaps make a bridge program that can
interact with a variety of text-based services through something like
IFTTT/Zapier/MSFlow, where the idea is if you can get the data into one of
those services, you can send it out via any number of
already-built-and-ready-to-use outputs they provide, like Twitter for
example, or Facebook (post to Facebook via your Teletype).

(After thinking about this a bit...this could be very doable with a pi zero
w and some scripts) - the only "hard" part is the computer <> TTY
interface, but if minimodem works good enough, that may be all that's
required!) Maybe we just need a "GreenKeys Rasbpi distro".

Now it would be...REALLY COOL...to see something like the iTelex integrate
with that idea, where it emulates all the motions of connecting up via a
phone number (cell number), then having the opposite end be a cell
phone/SMS. This may even extend to iMessage, but not sure if Apple opened
an API for that yet or not.

Lastly...ITTY is da bomb! It was literally the first thing I got working
when getting my first "real" teletype a few weeks ago, and let me tell you
it was awesome to see the thing come to life! Only thing I'd say to change
or improve it, would be perhaps to have a few additional streams/channels.
While news is cool and has that vintage AP vibe (I would definitely leave
that channel as-is), having a few other types of content would be neat,
perhaps channels like "vintage" news or wires, or something nerdy like
space/science news where perhaps a teacher can have one of these banging
away for a bit in a classroom -grin-, and so on.

Jeff (aka Bags)
KC3GJX
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