Twitter Monitoring Typewriter (TwypeWriter)

[Ian David]

Twitter Monitoring Typewriter (TwypeWriter)



The love for Twitter around the .:oomlout:. office is undeniable. We check it constantly, and as those of you who follow us know post to it far too often (or if you don’t follow us we’re @oomlout :) ).

We thought it appropriate to allow Twitter to be more than just an on monitor phenomena. To accomplish this we have combined an Arduino, Ethernet Shield and typewriter. We added a little bit of solder (we’re spoofing keystrokes) and some coding (available here) and what we have is a twitter monitoring machine.

It search’s for a term every 10 seconds (in our case ‘oomlout’ although ‘#haiku’ is good fun too). When a new tweet is posted it will proceed to whir to life and type it out (at the same time making us feel like we’re back in the 1970s).

More:
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2009/06/22/twitter-monitoring-typewriter-twypewriter/

[Duer 157099]

1. Interesting concept

I can see that being useful for someone who might want to sound busy behind closed doors, lol. Put in the earplugs, take a nap, and set it to search on a really popular term and everyone around will think you're furiously typing.

Course think of all the paper you'd waste.