<div>sounds pretty cool, Zot!</div>
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<div>I"m creating a twitter visualization for Strange Things. I'll be able to follow anyone.</div>
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<div>How long does it take to assemble?<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Zot <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dorkbotsea_blabber@mailonly.zotnet.com">dorkbotsea_blabber@mailonly.zotnet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Having just completed phase one of the Tweet-a-Temp<br>(<a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Tweet-A-Temp/" target="_blank">http://www.instructables.com/id/Tweet-A-Temp/</a>) which is a "failed"<br>
attempt to make a Tweet-A-Watt (<a href="http://www.ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/" target="_blank">http://www.ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/</a>)<br>I thought about Strange things.<br><br>what I propose is that each entry have a Tweet-a-Watt which links to a<br>
master receiver which then Tweets each entry's Wattage to a single<br>twitter account.<br><br>There are plenty of cool twists we could apply to this, if we go ahead.<br>Some thoughts are: interacting with Twittering queries; interacting with<br>
the entries (especially if they are on Twitter); acting as a, or<br>integrating with a, master twitter account for the event; Adding<br>Tweet-A-Watts from non-entries (lighting usage, A/C, Solar Panel<br>offsets, receiver computer, etc.); or interacting with the audience<br>
somehow.<br><br>The two things I like about this is that it is a "meta" level source of<br>information to the show, and offers a counterweight to the idea of using<br>electricity.<br><br>If we do want to go forward, I am willing to handle the purchasing<br>
process, to donate my time soldering the equipment, and to loan a<br>computer for the master receiving (if we need it).<br><br>I would expect each entry that had a Tweet-A-Watt to purchase the parts<br>(unless we can find a sponsor) for each transmitter (expected cost per<br>
transmitter+ Kill-A-Watt is about $60 +shp+tx, though bulk orders should<br>reduce that a bit).<br><br>We could also do a Tweet-A-Watt workshop at 911 to help defray costs<br>even more (this is a cool project for beginning/moderate soldering and<br>
programming).<br><br><br>Thoughts?<br><br><br>--<br>Zot O'Connor<br><br><a href="http://twitter.com/ZotOConnor" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/ZotOConnor</a><br><br><br>........................................................................<br>
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