Tweetea - Arduino and Twitter Tea Robut!

The original perl script for twitter monitoring is thanks to http://tinyurl.com/6s9fzb.
I forgot to mention that sometime in the future i'll add a sensor so it knows when theres a coffee cup underneath so the bastard doesn't pour boiling water everywhere... Again.
I got all of the parts from www.sparkfun.com and www.adafruit.com and the tea from www.adagio.com (from the signature 2008 Diggnation tea blends).

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• Tweetea
• Arduino
• Twitter
• Tea
• Robot
• Diggnation
• Alertuino
• Sparkfun
• Adafruit
• Ladyada
• Executus

[studentofsociety]

I am "tech dumb" when it comes to programs like this, but Im trying to use this basic idea for a community art piece. I have one question that Im hoping you can help me with though. I am just wondering if the program is reading/scanning for the message sent from your phone to the Twitter account or searching the Twitter server for tweets sent from that account. I am trying to set it up so that when individuals of a community mention a Twitter handle and a specific "phrase" the device turns on

[LEETLANDON]

@studentofsociety i ran a script that searched twitter for the hashtag every 30 seconds, and when it came up with a new result it would send that to the device.

[LEETLANDON]

There's a servo under the clear plastic brewer thats attached to the silver coffee can. It just pushes up on the brewer which makes it pour out the bottom.

[lennart0106]

but it won't cook if I tweet the hashtag?

[LEETLANDON]

@lennart0106 No, the way I had it working was to search for my username and the hashtags, and if someone new comes up it'll make tea.

I'm going to probably make a new one using an ethernet shield, and i'll post all the code somewhere for people to look through

[rabbitsib]

I wonder why you would do this when you can buy a device like this that is connected to the net. But hey, it is fun to make things

[LEETLANDON]

Do you know where I can buy one? I'd like to see what you mean.

[janssen64]

rocking the n-gage



[eflubacher]

@LEETLANDON you might be able to use a laser pointer and a photo resistor

[hacktheplanet42]

The link is 404'd Can you post the code somewhere?

[lennart0106]

how do you open the second container with the tea inside after 7 minutes? i dont see a servo

[lennart0106]

i wonder whether the opening of the middle of the tea maker at 4:31 is controlled by Arduino, too.