This Arduino-powered mood meter monitors an online chat conversation, IRC channel (holyshit IRC!) and displays the current "mood" of the maker. The components you needed to build this is an Arduino, a servo and some tape. Check out Tony's site for the Arduino and Ruby source code.
As long as computers have existed, we've tried to represent the physical world in the virtual one. This trend goes as far back as the punched cards and tabulating machines used in the 1890 United States Census, but it doesn't end there. When computers became common enough that regular people -- without specialized training -- may use them, interface designers went straight for spacial metaphors. We pulled more of the physical world into the machine.
What I find fascinating about hardware hacking, and platforms like the Arduino, is that we can reverse that trend. We can interact with computers through the physical world, rather than interpreting the physical world through a virtual one. And we can do it trivially. (quote from here)
Might try this out for experiment purpose, noww i just need to find the servo and the right time. (If only the Google SMEs can send their information faster and i can settle it faster...GAK)
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Thanks for the link!
Servos are pretty easy to find... I got mine at a hobby store in Toronto. Most places that carry arduino type hardware will also have fairly cheap servos.
-- T.
Hey Tony! Thx for dropping by, hope you don't mind i post your work here. :)
Not sure about the hobby shop here in Malaysia, just started venture in physical computing kind of thing but thx for the info!
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