How can SMS message activate Confetti Machine?
I am a Detroit based architecture student working on my thesis project that involves specific technology and programming that I am not capable of carrying out. I am in the beginning stages of research and in brief my project involves a cell phone sending a specific text message to a computer (or cell phone) that then activates a confetti blowing machine. I have attached a simple illustration of this action. Also here is a link to an example of the type of machine that will be activated.
http://www.artistryinmotion.com/equipment/equipment.html
I would greatly appreciate any help on where to start, what parts I will need, details on coding and if this is a basic task that a novice could configure and if not I will be looking for someone willing to produce this part of the project for me.
Kind Regards,
Sophia
http://www.artistryinmotion.com/equipment/equipment.html
I would greatly appreciate any help on where to start, what parts I will need, details on coding and if this is a basic task that a novice could configure and if not I will be looking for someone willing to produce this part of the project for me.
Kind Regards,
Sophia
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however one would ask that if you were to build this, what would stop you from using this as some sort of a "prank" or somthing at a school function to cover the band with pudding or something? just looking at the manhattan project angle, email me or PM me if you need any help, i have built large machines with BS2 brains and this seems pretty easy.
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- Stephen
Alternately (and probably cheaper), how do you send the message to the computer? I'm thinking that if you can get an email from your phone to computer (or some other HTML document), then you can use JAVA. Get the page source code and read through it with the JAVA program, and if it finds your string then it can output on a COM port to the microcontroller, which then does what you need it to do. For reading a web page with JAVA, see the book "Java After Hours" and for communicating with the BS2 via Java take a look at Building Java Robots.
or instant messaging system? would that make things eaiser? I know they
can accept data from cellphones.
As for using a chat program, as long as there is a file that java can parse then you could use it. The thing about the HTML project was that the program downloaded the page, then went through until the key phrase was found. It won't work for something like the Facebook messenger or the AOL IM, since those are programs (or applets) without a file that can be accessed. However, something like a blog (or this forum), where when you 'view source' you can see the text, that would work.
Thanks, Sophia.