A while back, our friends over at Adafruit and Instructables teamed up to offer a new contest called "Make It Tweet." Just recently, they announced the winners! The grand prize winner was a very cool project that uses some SparkFun parts called the Thermal Tweeter. Send a tweet to @dangerousproto and watch it print below!
The Thermal Tweeter uses a SparkFun thermal printer and a web platform internet development board. It does not use a PC connection to query Twitter or to run the printer. Rather, a serial port on the web platform outputs serial data to the printer RX pin at 19200bps. Tweets, user names, and IDs are extracted via a JSON search.
This is a very cool project that is low-cost (about $90 or so to make) and relatively simple to implement! You can read more about the project at their website. Great work!
Hmmmm... I wonder if there is a good way to have this print selected stock quotes at times of change or intervals. It would be like an old timey stock ticker!
Instead of using twitter, you could use Google trends to get a daily snapshot of what was hot. That would be cool. In fact, Google themselves should have these in their offices printing out random search terms... :-}
A similar idea has been implemented at a local museum - "trending" google searches are printed out by a series of valves and a whole bunch o' water!
Found a link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Wj5sjtCzo
I can only imagine how much paper it goes through!
Time to buy stock in Dunder & Mifflin!
You can but the Dunder Mifflin stock, I'll stick to Sabre, thank you.
Nice Ascii art!
"cant send tweets to someone who isnt following you" that was a good waste of time
AHH you tag them @dangerousproto
There I am. haha sweet
Make it tweet again! It seems like the printer is out of paper :(
I am building a project that uses this widget to feed a paper shredder. its got a 3 axis gyro, a couple elwires, zibee wireless interface, and a toaster oven too.
Is there an arduino shield for other stupid ideas?
This project is oddly depressing in a good way.
My favorite twitter project was the tweeting office chair.
http://gizmodo.com/5211135/man-builds-chair-that-tweets-his-farts-single+handedly-justifies-twitters-existence
Now i have an excuse to get a twitter
That is so cool! Is this a permanent stream on ??? I assume not.
Still waiting for mine to show up.
Are you including @dangerousproto in your tweets?
Don't forget that SparkFun sells our Bus Pirate and is a Logic Sniffer distributor too!
I was looking for a good excuse for buying the Ethernet Pro,
I think I just found one:D
I love this bridge between old tech/new tech. It makes me want to make a retro-style stock ticker.