Twitter + Arduino Ideas! – Eric Mackie
1. I would love to put a sort of pressure sensor in my bed, that would send a tweet whenever i get into or out of bed (to track my lately irregular sleeping patter). It’d also be (so not) cool if an alarm or obnoxious sound would play whenever “Wake Up” or something similar was tweeted to my page if i was in bed (of couse, this wouldn’t be anonymous, so I’d know who to blame).
2. Potentially: Rig a servo to my guitar and have a chord preset so that whenever somebody tweets a certain word, say “Strum,” the chord is played. I’d really like to hook it up so that whatever letter (from A to G) is tweeted, the corresponding note was played, but I’m not sure how viable that is.
3. Hook up a pen to a servo that would take directions from twitter and apply them to the arduino. For example, “up, down, left” could be tweeted, and the servo(s) would move the pen those directions. If paper was placed under the pen, this may lead to some interesting (or really un-interesting) drawings being created. I’d like the rig to be very loose, so that not all the lines would be perfectly straight. Maybe the paper would move too, so the drawing would stretch out to more of an area of the paper.