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Networked Christmas Tree Controlled By Twitter

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ho-ho-ho dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What's Twitter good for? How about crowd sourcing control of your Christmas tree. Dangerous Prototypes built an open source, networked Christmas tree that you can control from Twitter. Send a color or hexadecimal color code to @tweet_tree, then watch the color change on the live video stream. This project is based on an updated version of the open source business card size web server covered previously."

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  1. pinging christmas tree by sopssa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Judging from the comments, it seems his christmas tree replies to pings quite fast too

    Pinging 192.168.1.126 with 32 bytes of data:
    Reply from 192.168.1.126: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=100
    Reply from 192.168.1.126: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=100
    Reply from 192.168.1.126: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=100
    Reply from 192.168.1.126: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=100

  2. oh, you are so gonna get slashdotted... by xirusmom · · Score: 2, Funny

    How long until his server crashes? Place your bets here.

    1. Re:oh, you are so gonna get slashdotted... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sorry honey, no Christmas this year. The tree was slashdotted.

    2. Re:oh, you are so gonna get slashdotted... by Megaweapon · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well it is only running MINIX. Oh Tanenbaum, Oh Tanenbaum...

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  3. All this investment by hwyhobo · · Score: 4, Funny

    All this investment just to replace "finger".

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  4. Re:Down with Twitter by dumuzi · · Score: 3, Funny

    So just to clarify, the number of possibilities that Twitter has is approximately 1.0160469088 tonne, or 35.71 bushels (corn), or equivalent to the weight of 5555.5 wamprats, like a small car.

  5. ugh by rantingkitten · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's Twitter good for? How about crowd sourcing control of your Christmas tree.

    No, that still doesn't make Twitter good for anything.

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