bruzed » Twitter http://bruzed.com/portfolio Bruce Drummond's Portfolio Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:31:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 TweetCatcha http://bruzed.com/portfolio/data-visualization/tweetcatcha/ http://bruzed.com/portfolio/data-visualization/tweetcatcha/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:59:37 +0000 admin http://bruzed.com/portfolio/?p=149 TweetCatcha seeks to uncover the organic nature of news as it travels through Twitter over time, by examining the movement of NY Times articles through Twitter.

This data visualization project was built with ActionScript, PHP/MySQL, XML and uses the NY Timeswire API and backtweets API to harvest all the data. It was produced as a final project for Data Visualization as Generative Narrative at Parsons the New School for Design in Fall 2009, in collaboration with Nick Hardeman.

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]]> http://bruzed.com/portfolio/data-visualization/tweetcatcha/feed/ 0 Tweetlite http://bruzed.com/portfolio/physical-computing/tweetlite/ http://bruzed.com/portfolio/physical-computing/tweetlite/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:45:13 +0000 admin http://bruzed.com/portfolio/?p=43 Tweetlite is a visual commentary on our relationship with online social networks. It is an ambient light that represents a pixel – the smallest unit of visual digital information.

This is represented in the form of a minimalist, 4″ white, plexiglass, cube that reads messages from a Twitter feed and displays them in Morse code.

Each message is displayed in a different color and makes for a great mood light. It has USB and power connectivity and comes with software that is used to enter Twitter credentials to enable the data feed visualization. It needs to be connected to a computer with an Internet connection, via USB. Needless to say, it can be of great use to someone who can read, interpret or even want to learn Morse code.

It is powered by Arduino and Python. More documentation can be viewed on my blog. This project was produced for the Computation class at Parsons. More projects I worked on in this class can be viewed here.

Tweetlite is a visual commentary on our relationship with online social networks. It is an ambient light that represents a pixel – the smallest unit of visual digital information.
This is represented in the form of a minimalist, 4″ white, plexiglass, cube that reads messages from a Twitter feed and displays them in Morse code.
Each message is displayed in a different color and makes for a great mood light. It has USB and power connectivity and comes with a program that is used to enter Twitter credentials to enable the data feed visualization. It needs to be connected to a computer with an Internet connection, via USB. The patterns and colors can be customized. Needless to say, it can be of great use to someone who can read, interpret or even want to learn Morse code.
It is powered by Arduino and Python. The code is based off of example found here. If anyone is interested in building one I can post a tutorial, let me know
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