Idea 1:

Create an automated personal data stream by hooking up a camera that takes and posts a picture every time you blink. This way you are creating almost a constant stop motion of your life and broad casting to all your followers. Posing the question, are you really in charge of your posts and the reputation they create.

Idea 2:

Twitter is a social broadcasting medium through which reputations can be made and ruined. This project would involve translating this power from the screen to a physical object. The participant would log onto their twitter account and then bend a flex sensor attached to an arduino. The further you bend the sensor the more outrageous the lies posted to your twitter account. The lies would be taken from available data on the most commonly held secrets. The information would therefore be generic, yet when associated with your own personal twitter account, embarrassing.

Idea 3:

This idea is similar to the last one, but more specific. They both involve using a physical interface to control a stream of fallacious twitter posts. This project would involve a potentiometer and a stream of political comments . The further to the left you twist it the more left wing the comments are and vice-versa when you twist it to the right.

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.

Things I think would be neat to tweet as they happened, using an arduino as a detector of the occurrence:

1. Even though this may seem trivial, I always want to know when people are going to sleep and waking up. If I need to contact someone and it is a questionable hour of the day, ie, sometime in the late hours of the night or early hours of the morning, it would be good to know if I would be waking them up if I called or getting a response to a text anytime in the near future. This would probably work by putting a button or a sensor under their pillow and it sending a tweet when the head hits the pillow.

2. I think it would be really neat to know when someone is thinking about you, or talking about you. One way that someone may be aware of this is if someone typed your name, which would basically be a specific series of letter in a specific order. It may be nice to know if specific people typed your name, and the keys could send a tweet saying that ___ is thinking of___.

3. Using the TTL Serial JPEG Camera with NTSC Video I think it could be really cool to take pictures of people as they enter and/or leave a specific space, upload it to an image site, then tweet a message that contains the time the person entered the space along with the link with the photograph. Not exactly sure what that space would be, but it would have to be a location that mattered to a few people at least. It would be almost like a security camera taking photos instead of endless streams of video.

New Devices:

1. A microchip that one inserts or embeds in their hand or wrist. With the press of a small button, the chip projects a small virtual QWERTY keyboard above one’s hand. The user then types in thier message, chooses a recipient. Communication is triggered once the user presses enter on the keyboard.

2. A sensory device that tweets or relays the taste of food and drink at restaurants. Rather than a textual output, one would momentarily be able to taste the food they are thinking of buying.

3.A device that notifies you when anyone on your contacts list is hurt or injured. It would provide you with the time, place, and nature of their injury