Dragan and I talked to Katerie last class and pretty much just need to think more about our project and push it more than just a convenience aspect. We are not only delving with Arduino but also a program called Python, which looks to be a real pain.
Basically the idea is to control household appliances/products utilizing Twitter's API to send instructional tweets for them to do something. An example we saw was this Tweet-a-Pot, where a coffee pot was hooked up to an Arduino and programmed to make a cup of coffee when a tweet was sent to it with an identifiable hashtag. We need Python because it allows us to communicate with Twitter's API.
We pretty much wanted to criticize two things: convenience and social media. Social media already makes things so instant for us in this world but I think by using it as a method of command, such as sending operational tweets to the pot, it makes a simple thing as making coffee even simpler, more convenient, and makes us humans even lazier. I think beyond convenience, human interaction is also a criticized element. If all we need to do is send a tweet to make a coffee, we would never ever actually manually make another pot of coffee ever again. We are turning an already automated process double automated through the use of Arduino.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-F9Zdk_qM (Tweet-a-Pot)
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