Posts tagged with ‘tweet’

Posts tagged with ‘tweet’

  • twitter_newbird_blue

    WIFI Week: Twitter Temperature

    The final part of our Wifi Week! In this final example, we demonstrate how to send a message to Twitter from your robot. Check out how we use the Wifi Sensor to Tweet the Temperature!

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  • Tired of Turning off the Lights? Saving Electricity with the dSwitch and the TweetaWatt

    Earlier we posted on how we used some free time over the holidays to make Adafruit’s Tweet-A-Watt project. We wanted to see if we could combine the device with the dSwitch and conserve some energy around the office. We wrote a quick program that “listens” for a human, and turns the lights off if no one is there. The...

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  • How much electricity does a christmas tree use?

    To celebrate Christmas, we decided to see just how much electricity those Christmas lights on our tree burn up (Merry Christmas Mr. Gore!). Not really because we’re concerned about global warming, but more because we were interested in the XBee, and the really cool project from adafruit.com. In a nutshell, this thing takes an off-the-shelf Killawatt, which monitors electricity...

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