BOOBIE BOARD POWERED TWITTER NOTIFIER

The team over at Archonix often difficulty themselves to produce a full working job in under 20 minutes. [Andrew Armstrong] put together a blog publish outlining their most recent “Quickproject” – a simple Twitter notifier developed utilizing their Boobie Board.

They started by putting together a little notifier breakout module that might later be connected to their Boobie Board. The module is quite simple as well as includes a trio of LEDs to alert you to activity across a number of on the internet services, though only the Twitter notification module is currently complete. The notifier’s code was written in LUA, as well as primarily designed to interact with Linux desktops. They do not currently have a Windows compatible version of the code available, however they are more than happy to hold it if somebody wishes to port their code over.

The notifier was put into an old candy tin with a plastic window, which is perfect in shape for their project. all in all, the entire thing took them about 40 minutes, with half spent on hardware, half on code. The notifier does just what it was meant to do, however they have a healthy listing of enhancements that they would like to add, including the utilize of the other two notifier LEDs.