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Twitter Hack – Twitter Controlled Christmas Tree!

December 22nd, 2009

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For the Christmas holidays, here’s a fun project that involves Twitter and a small Christmas tree.  Twitters can change the color of the Christmas Tree by tweeting to @tweet_tree the color you want.

To choose the color of our tree, just send a color to @tweet_tree on Twitter.

@tweet_tree red, green, purple, green, p, g, r, b

@tweet_tree understands red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Send one color, or combination of colors to morph through. Separate multiple colors with a comma. Only the first letter of the color matters, r,o,y,g,b, & p, are acceptable color commands.

@tweet_tree red, *ff0000, green, *00ff00, blue, *0000ff

via instructables

Twitter Hack – How to Tweet Your Palm Pre’s GPS Location!

September 11th, 2009

Here’s a really fun Twitter hack that shows you how to “tweet” your Palm Pre’s GPS location to your Twitter account.  This could be a great way to track your Pre’s whereabouts as you can also optionally set your Twitter account to “protected” so only you see the GPS updates.

(Screenshot of @trackmypalmpre, which gets updated with location of my Palm Pre every hour.)

As promised on my last blog post on how to set up Google GPS tracking on your Palm Pre, I will now show you how to “tweet’ your GPS location to a Twitter account so you can track it on Twitter too.

This might be a great way to keep “track” of where your Palm Pre has been.  You could probably even make a GoogleMaps using the Twitter RSS feed to show exactly where your Palm Pre has been traveling in the past.

via palm pre hacks

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Twitter Hack – Twitter Watches Notifies you of Trending Topics!

September 11th, 2009

For those of you twitter addicts out there who need to know what’s trending on Twitter, there’s a cool Twitter Hack that will update the latest trending topics on a small LCD screen.  This isn’t that hard to implement it looks like, check it out here.

The #twatch connects directly to Twitter and scrolls the latest trending topics and related tweets on an LCD screen. It’s a stand-alone network appliance that stays updated without a PC. It was awesome to watch #iranelection, Michael Jackson, and other historic events scroll by while we developed the #twatch.

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Twitter Hack – Home Automation Using Twitter Status Updates!

July 20th, 2009

Here’s an incredibly fun way to devise up home automation using Twitter Status updates as commands for remote-control of your home appliances.  This is a really cool project (as any other Twitter hacks) as it makes use of your actual @reply messages to control your home.

With http://twitter.com/MattsOffice you can send a command by placing a keyword in a @reply message. Valid keywords are “light”, “bright”, “dark”, “temp”, “hot”, “cold”, “lcd”, and “view”. For example, to retrieve the temperature of my office I just need to update my Twitter status with a simple question like “@MattsOffice What is the temperature?”

via diy blog

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Twitter Hack – How to Twitter on a Commodore 64!

June 24th, 2009

Are you joking me?  Why are people suddenly trying to twitter on very old computers?  Well, regardless of reason, it’s cool that you can recycle old computers to “tweet”.  This could possibly make them useful enough to not throw away.

With BREADBOX64 you can post status messages and view your friends timeline. The timeline refreshes every two minutes.  After starting you provide your twitter username and password separated by a colon. After pressing enter, the timeline is retrieved and shown. At the bottom of the screen there is an input field for you to type aq status message. Pressing enter will post that message to twitter.

You can run BREADBOX64 on a C64 emulator. I use VICE, because that one supports networking. However, you can better test it on a real system if you have the hardware ready at hand. If so, copy the D64 to a real disk, put it in your 1541 and go ahead!

via vandenbrande

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Twitter Hack – How to Make a Twitter TypeWriter!

June 23rd, 2009

For those of you who are tired of watching your 20″ LCD screen for the latest tweets, there’s another way of reading your tweets via a Typewriter!

The folks at Oomlout.co.uk have figured out how to connect an arduino and ethernet module to monitor the search term “Oomlout” and automatically type out the latest tweet relating to that keyword.

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).

This should be actually a pretty easy project as most typewriters support RS232 communication.  You can also check out their Typewriter Twitter @Oomlout.

via hackaday

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Twitter Library Available for Make Controller Hackers!

May 6th, 2009

Make Controller is a 32-bit ATMEGA-based microcontroller you can build cool robots with, someone has created a Twitter library so you can make Twitter apps on the fly, check it out here.

via make

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Twitter Hack – Office Chair Fart Detector Tweets!

April 26th, 2009

Randy, over at Instructables, have made a cool office chair that will detect when you fart, and of course, tweet that to the whole world.  Cool stuff, I wish there’s a video for it.

See, there’s endless possibilities for Twitter hacks, thus TweetHacking.com was born!

The Twittering office chair “tweets” (posts a Twitter update) upon the detection of natural gas such as that produced by human flatulence. This is part of my commitment to accurately document and share my life as it happens.

via instructables

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Twitter page @OfficeChair

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Twitter Hack – Brain Twitter Interface for Locked-in Syndrome or a Spinal Cord Injury

April 25th, 2009

WOW!  Twitter can now officially be twitted using your brain!  NitroLab of University of Wisconsin has figured out a way to write tweets using the human brain waves.  The whole process is rather cumbersome but it’s a viable solution for those with Locked-in syndrome or a spinal cord injury to communicate online with the world.

The 140 characters of Twitter really allows this device to be the perfect interface as writing a letter can take a second or two as seen in the video.

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Video demo of writing, “Spelling with my brain” @uwbci.

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via hackaday

Paper Twitter!

April 19th, 2009

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I don’t think this paper Twitter comes close enough to mimicking the real Twitter but heck, this is the best Paper Twitter I’ve seen one so far, it even comes with “tags”…which is weird.

Don’t forget to check out the Paper E-mail too, hilarious.

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