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February 7th, 2010, 15:40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HsE6tkWCzM
Reading people's annoying "I'm eating such-and-such" tweets gets pretty tiring (though we're just as guilty as the next guy when we have a particularly impressive petit four). Someone with even more time on their hands than us had taken it upon themselves to make a little contraption that, it could be argued, increases Twitter (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Twitter/)'s usefulness just a little. Popcorn Tweets (as it's called) was built using Lego's Mindstorm NXT and is powered by Labview software. Triggered by a #popcorn tweet, the machine's motor is driven by a belt which turns an Archimedes' screw, which in turn moves a kernal of unpopped corn from the hopper to the popper. Of course, you could always just get a bag of Orville Redenbacher's microwave corn, but then... where's the fun in that? The semi-annoying video is after the break.Continue reading Twitter-powered robotic popcorn machine: media snacker deluxe (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/twitter-powered-robotic-popcorn-machine-media-snacker-deluxe/)
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Reading people's annoying "I'm eating such-and-such" tweets gets pretty tiring (though we're just as guilty as the next guy when we have a particularly impressive petit four). Someone with even more time on their hands than us had taken it upon themselves to make a little contraption that, it could be argued, increases Twitter (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Twitter/)'s usefulness just a little. Popcorn Tweets (as it's called) was built using Lego's Mindstorm NXT and is powered by Labview software. Triggered by a #popcorn tweet, the machine's motor is driven by a belt which turns an Archimedes' screw, which in turn moves a kernal of unpopped corn from the hopper to the popper. Of course, you could always just get a bag of Orville Redenbacher's microwave corn, but then... where's the fun in that? The semi-annoying video is after the break.Continue reading Twitter-powered robotic popcorn machine: media snacker deluxe (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/twitter-powered-robotic-popcorn-machine-media-snacker-deluxe/)
Twitter-powered robotic popcorn machine: media snacker deluxe (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/twitter-powered-robotic-popcorn-machine-media-snacker-deluxe/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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