Diagram

The printer is connected to a 9V wall wart (2.0A, if it’s too low the text will come out as gray). You can power the Photon directly with a 3.7 power supply or with 5V via the micro usb port.

IFTTT Sample recipe

This IFTTT Recipe creates a particle event for each tweet generated from Donald Trump (and another recipe does the same for Hillary).

If Tweet then Particle Event

The particle is running code that triggers on every new event of that type, and prints it out in physical space (using adafruit industries’s Thermal Printing library).

Code Example

(for build.particle.io)