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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. Down with Twitter by gardel999 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it just me or is Twitter the most annoying thing to take off in years?

    1. 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.

    2. Re:Down with Twitter by xmundt · · Score: 2, Insightful

      greetings and salutations...
      My only real problems with twitter are these:
      a) I am not sure I can say anything of substance in 140 characters...
      b) Twitter promotes the idea that anyone else cares about what you are doing every 30 seconds of the day....Trust me...WE DO NOT CARE.
                  Merry Christmas
                  Dave Mundt

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

    All this investment just to replace "finger".

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  5. Check out MY networked RGB tree! by Miamicanes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My tree isn't publicly-networked, but I'm pretty proud of it and love to show it off :-)

    Each light has its own microcontroller & RGB led. The lights are autonomous, but can be orchestrated by the controller.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5qR9_8KGPU

  6. Mbed is much easier. by LoRdTAW · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can do this with an mbed and not need to etch your own PCB or solder SMT components. I got one when they first shipped and let me say they are a pleasure to work with. Ethernet, USB, serial (rs232, SPI, i2c), PWM, Analog in and out as well as digital in and out. Small compact foot print that is DIP compatible. The best pat is it is programed with c++ instead of assembly. You don't need a programmer either as you plug it into any PC (Works with Linux, OSX and Win) via usb and shows up as a 2mb flash disk and you drag and drop the binary to the disk and hit the reset button. The only down side is the compiler is online so its sorta cloud based but there are third party compilers for the ARM Cortex that will work with the mbed.

    No I am not paid to plug this device, its just been a while since I had this much fun playing with embedded hardware. http://www.mbed.org/

  7. 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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