The Smuggie: Tweet straight from your Snuggie

Want to tweet how satisfied you are cuddled up in your Snuggie? The Smuggie is a modified Snuggie, designed specifically for those who feel the need to express their smug satisfaction with a Snuggie to their friends on Twitter.
Here's a list of everything you'll need:

- Processing IDE (http://processing.org/)Arduino IDE (http://arduino.cc/)
- A Twitter account (https://twitter.com/)
- At least one Snuggie"
- 1 Arduino Main Board (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=666)
- 1 Solderless Breadboard (any size, the smaller the better)
- About 5-10 feet of 22AWG Solid Core Wire
- A needle and thread
- About a foot of foam core
- About a foot of Conductive Tape

By: Justin Blinder
http://blog.justinblinder.com

Step 1 Writing the Code

Code
1) Download and Install Arduino/Processing (there are tutorials on each website on how to get setup).

2) Open up Arduino. The code below is basically going to program our Arduino to wait for a button press, and send a message to Processing every time the button is pressed. Copy the code into the Arduino window and plug your Arduino into your computer. Click the upload button at the top of the window. You'll see a message on the bottom of the window that says "Done" once everything's finished. Now our Arduino is all ready for coding.

Arduino Code
2) Now let's pen up Processing. The following code is going to handle the following:- Connect to a remote Twitter client (so you can tweet from your very own Twitter account)
- Listen for a button press from our Arduino- If it sees that a button is pressed, send Twitter our status update

3) Copy and paste the code below into the Processing window. On the line that says:
String myStatus = "enter your status update here";
replace the text "enter your status update here" with the message you'd like to tweet (leaving the quotes intact). Make sure your message is a maximum of 140 charecters, otherwise your Smuggie's won't tweet!

Processing Code

Comments

[TobaTobias]

Is the site down? I can't get the url to validate.

[13pboys]

i have done every thing you said i must do and only sometimes i get the message
please can you tell me what to do

[13pboys]

ok now i dont get anything

[13pboys]

it seems to work when i change the stutus so i have to change the stutus ever time i want to make a message

[eaon21]

cant make a tweet ;(

[eaon21]

im new to processing...after uploading the code to my arduino board and putting the pin number in String pin and putting a status message in String mystatus, what am i supposed to do, just click the run/play button in processing???

[busidit]

Nice!
Arduino is the new salt. It makes everything better.

[skrubol]

In your picture it looks like you have pin 12 shorted to ground. The switch won't be doing anything. You'll need to have a larger value resistor between pin 12 and ground than between pin 12 and the switch.
If Arduino's have built in pull ups, you could just enable the pull up on pin 12 and connect the switch to ground on one side and use a 1-10k resistor (pull ups are usually between 10-50k, not sure about on atmega.) with no second connection.

[bderousse]

this is freaking tweet! I might make one of these for my sister.

[wizgirl]

Do you update the code each time you want to tweet a new message?

[jblinder]

Hi wizgirl,

As long as the Processing application is running with the correct pin number entered in, the Smuggie should be ready to tweet (as many times as you you'd like too). I checked on the Twitter developer documentation website, and it looks like there's no specified timeout limit when you authenticate with a Twitter client (the part in Step 2), so the pin should be reusable every time you fire up Processing. However, if tweeting from the Proccssing app ever stops working, it'd probably be best to go through Step 2 again and create a new pin.

Cheers.

[wizgirl]

Sweet, thanks!

[Petro_N]

huh! very nice))

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[lebowski]

Awesome!