Cuckoo Clock Used for Developing Twitwee Clock

Overview

This Twitwee Clock project is built from a wooden cuckoo clock and has the ability to connect to Internet wirelessly while constantly checking the status and updating on Twitter.

Details

Any twitter stream or search could be monitored by the clock in order to inform the user about new tweets in his personal timeline since it is configured to react on self-referenced tweets. The tweet is displayed on the built-in screen and cuckoo mechanism is triggered if Twitwee Clock is mentioned in any tweet. By sending a tweet with the word TwitweeClock, the hash tag #TwitweeClock, or the username @TwitweeClock, the observer has the possibility to interact with the clock.

An Arduino board with WiFi dongle is the basis of the Twitwee Clock along with a touch screen display. The design is an open source/open hardware platform with a Linux operating system. A flash runtime for mobile devices from Adobe known as Flash Lite Player is also installed on the device which has the capability of delivering high definition content and rich applications. For the Twitwee Clock to connect to the Twitter API to receive new tweets, a widget was custom built.