DIY Twitter Flagpole

by sofianhw

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Intro: DIY Twitter Flagpole

below are the items I used for it:

  • Intel Edison
  • ULN2803a
  • Stepper Motor
  • Timing Belt 3D printer
  • Stand for camera
  • Broomstick
  • Cables Tie

STEP 1: Assemble the Flagpole

Followed by attaching the camera stand and stepper motor on the broomstick using a cable tie. Making sure the timing belt is not too tight

STEP 2: Assemble ULN, Stepper Motor, and Intel Edison

Follow the scheme. Next we will turn the pulley. Here is the code I wrote in Python. countFlagSteps.py

Just download the code and execute it in terminal just simply "python countFlagSteps.py"

When the flag has reached the top, press ‘Ctrl + C’ to interrupt the program, then the program will output how many rounds it takes to reach the top. When all the steps is considered a success, now we will connect to twitter.

STEP 3: Connect to Twitter

Before starting it we better make the twitter application first. We will utilise the API Streaming to get the number of tweets in real-time. Here is the code. countTweets.py and also we have to prepare token_key.txt from twitter

Now lets test the code we made is working or not

Run the code "python countTweets.py -oauth token_key.txt [word_tracking]". In picture I wanna flag will go up triggered by word "garudaku" from public twitter timeline. So I just type "python countTweets.py -oauth token_key.txt garudaku"

if somebody tweet "garudaku" it will print how much tweet and the flag will go up.

STEP 4: Testing


Above is the video that has been fast forwarded because originally it took 2 hours to make this work.

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18 Comments

lsahidin 7 years ago

Mantap sekali coy, good!! Merah Putih.

FvadS 8 years ago

Pasti dicari activation agency ni yang kaya gini....

sofianhw 7 years ago

Belum ada yang nyariin nih
hehehe

dionha 8 years ago

Up Up - endonesa raya

sofianhw 7 years ago

hiduplah Indonesia raya

ir_One 8 years ago

mantap kang, jadi pengen ke hardware lagi, dulunya arduino, harganya intel edison brapa kang..?

sofianhw 7 years ago

intel edison lumayan 1jtaan kalo ga salah, tapi itu bisa dipake selain intel edison :)

chalei 8 years ago

iya tuh mas sofyan trigger dari twitternya blm dijelasin.

Already vote for this project By the way :)

sofianhw 8 years ago

Eh iya, belum terbiasa dengan instructables.

Thanks btw,

ikutan juga ga?

chalei 8 years ago

hehe, nda dulu yang ini mah. Mau ikut yang raspberry aja nanti. semoga masihh sempet

chalei 8 years ago

bro vote balik project ane

https://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Roboat/

tomatoskins 8 years ago

From your instructable I can't figure out what on twiter is the trigger to raise the flag.

sofianhw 8 years ago

hi @tomatoskins

I just update part of twitter triggered.

Thanks for the input

Its my first post in instrucable