or the second Guardian Hack Day, the folks from Tinker.it have created a Twitter leaders board based on the tweets responding to the UK political parties
As I said, most of the developers at our hack days are from the Guardian, but we always invite people from outside the company to bring in new ideas or new technologies. The folks at Tinker.it work with the Arduino open-source hardware platform. The platform has sensors and circuits that can add real-world interaction to technology projects. People can add light or motion sensors to Arduino projects, or they can use events on the web to trigger motors or lights.
In this project, they analysed the responses to the Twitter accounts of the three main political parties in the UK to drive motors to create a simple leader board showing the relative number of responses to the parties. It was a fun project. They were running into trouble with just a half hour left as some of the parts they had were broken. Never fear, the got the parts in time to build their project. I'll post the Twitter leader board in action a bit later.
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Kevin Anderson Friday 31 July 2009 16.37 BST
guardian.co.uk
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