Having lots of tabs open in your browser, and clicking on each one to see notifications, can be a nuisance. Luckily, we can easily build a project that pulls in notifications from several sources to create a bot that notifies us on an LCD. We'll also learn more about If This, Then That (IFTTT), and its plugin that will allow us to route events to Adafruit IO and thereby our Pi.
IFTTT is a way to create graphical formulas (called applets) that consist of a trigger (such as a social media event) and an action (such as sending data to AdafruitIO). We're going to walk through linking AdafruitIO and our social media accounts to IFTTT, and creating Applets to send social media notification data to AdafruitIO.
First, sign in or create an account at https://ifttt.com/, and we'll start linking our accounts.