Saturday

A Different Twitter [WebApps]

It could be said that Twitter API and the simplicity of the platform has made Twitter the great social platform it is today. It’s a great example that to create a successful social platform is not necessarily about the features but how agile the platform is for it’s users. Whilst there are many different uses to twitter, here, we bring you a few “different” ways twitter has been used to either change how we think about objects that surround us or the way we may begin to visualise relationships we create each day.

Physical

Twittering Plants using Botanicalls
Botanicalls Kits let plants reach out for human help! They offer a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates to your mobile phone. When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks when you show it love. The first project was available on Make but much improved since then. You can now buy DIY kits.
   

Twitter Teddy Bear
Innovative 2.0 surgery on an old childhood friend. The result: a real-time Twittering, talking, live-streaming social media phenomenon. With help of the team at the Drexel Music and Entertainment Technology Lab to develop Teddy’s text-to-speech software comes a Teddy Bear that twitters your messages.

Keep Tab On Home Security With A Webcam And Twitter
Worried about someone breaking into your house in your absence? Or just need to keep a tab on who enters your room while you are away? Well, all you need is a webcam, a linux PC/laptop and a twitter account. 

Twitter LED Scroller Build Log
Build a dot-matrix display of your twitter updates which scroll on by. Source code, schematics &  pictures for your new DIY weekend project.

Ganzbot: An Arduino robot who reads Twitter
This funny little robot has eyes, eyebrows and a mouth and will verbally read your latest Twitter status to you. It uses an Arduino Decima to control the head actions and receives the latest Twitter status information over USB from a host computer.

Visualisation
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