Twitter Christmas Tree
Interactive Arduino-controlled Christmas Tree Using Twitter
An interactive Christmas tree with ornaments that react to mentions of specific keywords on Twitter.
A netbook running Processing with Twitter4J is used for performing searches of predetermined holiday words (listed below) and generates a queue of ornament blinks. The netbook acts like a queue manager, ensuring that the Arduino wouldn't get confused when it's own memory got hosed by a high frequency word, and possibly missing out on a low freq word as a result. It is much easier to manage this in Processing on the netbook and hand off a reliable buffer of "blinks."
The Twitter search terms include: Christmas, Xmas, Santa, mistletoe, hackerspace, alphaonelabs, hack, opensource, snow, season, merry, peace, cheer, consumerism, joy, presents, greetings, arduino, jingle bells, happy new year, 2010, 2009, reprap, Brooklyn
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