BirdBot5000 (Fall 2014)
A project by John Choi and Miranda Jacoby for Electronic Media Studio: Interactivity at Carnegie Mellon University.
On the programming side, Temboo is used to interface with Twitter, as well as to assist in generating Processing code. The Processing library for Blink(1) is a bit outdated, but still somewhat usable, so it was also incorporated. Finally, Processing TTS (Text-to-Speech) was implemented to get the bird talking. The final program searches for a new “pigeon” tweet every 10 seconds. When such a tweet is found, the servo activates, the Blink(1) changes color, and the tweet is read aloud. After the tweet is read, the servo activates again to return BirdBot5000 to its resting position.
BirdBot5000 is a pigeon that reads tweets about pigeons.
BirdBot5000 is for the consumer who wishes to always be in the know about pigeon-related news on Twitter.
BirdBot5000 can also be configured to search for different keywords over varied time spans.
Tired of reading through an endless scroll of tweets? Have a little birdie tell you the latest news instead!
Note that this device can also be used to systematically scare little children at the local aviary.
Original Post here:
http://cmuems.com/2014a/maj/09/09/birdbot5000-by-john-choi-miranda-jacoby/
A project by John Choi and Miranda Jacoby for Electronic Media Studio: Interactivity at Carnegie Mellon University.
On the programming side, Temboo is used to interface with Twitter, as well as to assist in generating Processing code. The Processing library for Blink(1) is a bit outdated, but still somewhat usable, so it was also incorporated. Finally, Processing TTS (Text-to-Speech) was implemented to get the bird talking. The final program searches for a new “pigeon” tweet every 10 seconds. When such a tweet is found, the servo activates, the Blink(1) changes color, and the tweet is read aloud. After the tweet is read, the servo activates again to return BirdBot5000 to its resting position.
BirdBot5000 is a pigeon that reads tweets about pigeons.
BirdBot5000 is for the consumer who wishes to always be in the know about pigeon-related news on Twitter.
BirdBot5000 can also be configured to search for different keywords over varied time spans.
Tired of reading through an endless scroll of tweets? Have a little birdie tell you the latest news instead!
Note that this device can also be used to systematically scare little children at the local aviary.
Original Post here:
http://cmuems.com/2014a/maj/09/09/birdbot5000-by-john-choi-miranda-jacoby/
