Re: [neonixie-l] new project: FLW with socially outsourced word generation

[Mich...@aol.com]

The link to youtube video is actually a tiny picture.

 

Wanna see the video and details.  :)

 

Michail

 

 

In a message dated 5/27/2015 3:57:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ro...@cqr-ltd.com writes:

Hi Folks,

      I got around to doing something with the B-7971 I had. Along with a raspberry pi that had lain unused for far too long.

It's an FLW-alike that is connected to Twitter to harvest words, here's a link to a short vid:

youtube video

Not much electrical engineering going on with the design as I just used TaylorEdge PSU and smart sockets, the fun was in the programming the Pi.

It needs a case making but I'm waiting on a camera extension cable right now (and also tempted to add at least two more tubes ... has anyone from the UK here got any I could buy?)

 

It displays the time and the words that will fit on the display from a random tweet feed. It also displays TWOI: the TWitter Originality Index or the ratio of original tweets to retweets seen in the random feed.

It will listen out for any tweets with the hashtag #NixieBotShowMe use that tag and it'll send you back a picture of the next word in your tweet after that tag that will fit on the display. 

Other tags you can add on are #NBreceipt for a DM acknowledgement and #TheTime .

@mention others in your tweet to get them mentioned in the reply.

 

Outgoing tweets are limited to one a minute and queued so you may have to wait a while if it gets popular. 

Follow it on twitter @NixieBot to see all the words that get sent.

Bear in mind that it's the internet providing words so don't blame me if you see something rude. Hopefully the fact that everyone who wants to can see what was submitted by who (and reply to them ) should make it somewhat self policing... maybe!

Future additions planned include fetching and displaying the odd stock quotation every now and then (for old time's sake) and maybe plugging it into this mailing list for a word source too. Other ideas welcome :)

Cheers,

       Robin.

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[Tom Harris]

Put your code up online. Then we can have a network of such things. I would use a large flipdot display in a semi-public place like a makerspace. People can use the obsolete display technology of their choice! Smoke signals even! Semaphore! Morse code! Perhaps it's time for my medication...

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[David Forbes]

Not an obsolete display technology, but very interesting for its fur pixels...
https://fnews.com/an-interactive-fur-mirror-by-daniel-rozin-u032

[Tom Harris]

Thanks for the link. That's a lot of motors!

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[Cqr]

Oops, sorry, here's a proper link:

http://youtu.be/86_GQmUG-Lk

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[Cqr]

Stay off those meds I like the result :)

I'll put it up on github once sanitized a bit for public consumption, but most of the magic is from the twython library and python itself which makes extracting data from the Twitter api a breeze really. It's practically English if you name your variables right :)

Cheers,

.     Robin.

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[Cqr]

The same chap did a wooden mirror a while back, much noisier:

http://www.smoothware.com/danny/art.html

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[Tom Harris]

That's why I like Python too!

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