Hi there,

you are interested in the RasPi RSS Reader?

It is a tiny RSS headline reader for Hitachi HD44780 compatible displays which are connected to the Raspberry Pi via its GPIO pins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dr9oPzB0EA (2x16)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0EcUf-17Bc (4x20)

More information about the circuit is available here: http://www.schnatterente.net/technik/raspberry-pi-32-zeichen-hitachi-hd44780-display
It's written in German, but there are also pictures - they are international. :)


The RSS reader should work with any kind of HD44780 display.
Two libraries are needed to make it run: RPi.GPIO and Feedparser.

To install it, you have to do the following (as root):

	# mkdir rss
	# cd rss

	# wget http://raspberry-gpio-python.googlecode.com/files/python-rpi.gpio_0.3.1a-1_armhf.deb
	# dpkg -i python-rpi.gpio_0.3.1a-1_armhf.deb

	# wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c9.tar.gz
	# tar -zxvf setuptools-0.6c9.tar.gz
	# cd setuptools-0.6c9/
	# python setup.py build
	# python setup.py install
	# cd ..

	# wget http://feedparser.googlecode.com/files/feedparser-5.1.2.tar.gz
	# tar -zxvf feedparser-5.1.2.tar.gz
	# cd feedparser-5.1.2/
	# python setup.py install
	# python setup.py install
	# cd ..

	# wget http://www.schnatterente.net/code/raspberrypi/rssreader.py
	# chmod +x rssreader.py

Edit the rssreader.py file to define the hardware and the feed settings. 
The required information to do this can be found in the comments of the file.

Have fun with the RSS reader! :)