Teknopsis » twitter http://teknopsis.com Overclock your brain Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:08:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Ganzbot – an automated robot that reads Twitter updates http://teknopsis.com/the-ganzbot-an-automated-robot-that-reads-twitter-updates/ http://teknopsis.com/the-ganzbot-an-automated-robot-that-reads-twitter-updates/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:25:33 +0000 Nottin http://teknopsis.com/?p=168 When Steve Ganz left his LinkedIn office to compete in the PDGA (Professional Disc Golf Association)  World Tour, his fellow employees built a Twitter-reading robot to fill his chair.

(For those that don’t know, Twitter is a microblogging platform where users share the little things that are going on in their lives.)

The robot is essentially a talking “head” – a cardboard box stuffed with a microcontroller and LEDs. Fed through a USB port, the robot recieves twitter updates from a Java application. The application also sends the Ganzbot facial expressions as it figures out how to “pronounce” words.

Here are some videos of the Ganzbot in action:

Really cool! I would most definitely invest $25 in these things, they are a huge upgrade in USB slot fillers.

[Mozmonkey]

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