Twitter-Writing Laser Gun Turns Tweets Into Art - edwardsperes1992

How can a Twitter feed become graphics? Hacker and appliance whiz Matt Richardson provides an answer in the form of a project that combines societal media, an Arduino microcontroller, and glow-in-the-dark surfaces. It's not incisively completed yet, but the "Fade Away 1" project is something that highlights both the passing importance of information and the finer applications of a laser gun.

As relayed via Twitter by Engadget's Alt surgical incision, Richardson's latest hack was prominently faced at the Greater New York University ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Syllabu) Winter Program this month, showcasing how Twitter could be featured visually via laser writing.

As Richardson explains in his project update, a PHP host searches for specific tweets, much like a technical Twitter newspaper column would, feeding them to two high declaration digital servos that control a radical-chromatic laser diode. In turn, the Arduino microcontroller uses the gadget to print pre-programmed characters fed via computer onto the phosphorescent vinyl instrument panel. As tacit by the name of the project, the graphics's program line comes from the text eventually fading away as new data is fed to the canvas.

Several people say that what you put connected the internet never goes away. Perhaps it's good a cautious way of thinking about what you upload, but in reality, things really serve fade aside. And if a particular datum isn't ever completely eradicated in your lifetime, IT gets diluted among the Brobdingnagian amount of data that get uploaded everyday.

It was on this theme that I created Dissolve 1. IT performs a twitter search for the term "fade absent" and uses an ultra violet optical maser diode to write these tweets on a phosphorescent surface. To each one role has been programmed into an Arduino microcontroller, which controls the servo motors and the laser.

Once Richardson finishes advanced versions of "Fade Away 1" by quieting the servos, making the letters look nicer, and tweaking the laser motions, he anticipates that his primary estimation wish follow to the full realised. Arsenic IT is, the early results look impressive nonetheless. For the more rum hackers and DIY geeks out there, you hindquarters follow Richardson's progress along his Twitter and YouTube accounts.

[Matt Richardson via Engadget]

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