Introduction: Twitter Enabled Candy Machine
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Give away candy is a twitter enabled candy machine built by me and @sidpiraya
Tweet " give @_macke_ candy " or " give @Sidpiraya candy " to give us candy and you can see it live at http://www.giveawaycandy.com/
Hardware:
How dos it work?
The computer has a ruby script that listens to twitters streaming api on mentions of @_macke_ and @sidpiraya. When receiving a message we use a regular expression to see if it contains “give” and “candy”. On a successful match the ruby script open a connection to a telnet server written in python that send a command to the servo controller.
Then the ruby script sends a message to the web page to display the last tweet.
History:
If you are interested in the history of the candy machine you can read about it at Sidpirayas blog
Have fun giving us candy =)
/Marcus
http://www.slickstreamer.info/
Tweet " give @_macke_ candy " or " give @Sidpiraya candy " to give us candy and you can see it live at http://www.giveawaycandy.com/
Hardware:
- Candy machine - Carousel Jukebox Gumball Machine
- Servo - full rotation
- Servo controller - we using a USB servo controller
- Epoxy
- Computer
How dos it work?
The computer has a ruby script that listens to twitters streaming api on mentions of @_macke_ and @sidpiraya. When receiving a message we use a regular expression to see if it contains “give” and “candy”. On a successful match the ruby script open a connection to a telnet server written in python that send a command to the servo controller.
Then the ruby script sends a message to the web page to display the last tweet.
History:
If you are interested in the history of the candy machine you can read about it at Sidpirayas blog
Have fun giving us candy =)
/Marcus
http://www.slickstreamer.info/
2 Comments
11 years ago on Introduction
why not try a juke box which listens for the name of a song and artist and searches the music library for a match and plays it
12 years ago on Introduction
This seems to have potential at our wildlife reserve in Nicaragua. Thanks. What I would like us to do is when a person texts a donation to us, it instructs the candy dispenser to provide a gift AND twitter that "phone number" has donated "the amount".