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W5200 for the QuickStart Tweet Project - Need Ideas

Mike GMike G Posts: 2,702
edited 2013-05-26 10:25 in Propeller 1
I have a very Tweet project - Implement a tweeting WizNet 5200 for QuickStart. While tweeting is straight forward, I'm having difficulty coming up an interesting reason to Tweet.

I'm hoping the community can throw a few ideas my way.

Comments

  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2013-05-24 07:12
    > I'm having difficulty coming up an interesting reason to Tweet.
    Which shows you are sane! :)
    The problem with tweeting is that 99.9999 percent of everything Tweet'ed is utterly useless and void of real information. I've been at conferences where a number of attendees constantly tweet about what's been said on stage, and the tweets are often also displayed on some huge screen inside the room itself, e.g. at the goopen conference I attended in March. The tweets were pointless to us actually at the conference and useless for anyone not there. And that's what I've seen over the years. I've concluded that tweeting is meaningless, as normally done.
    Instead I would use it to push real information. What about regular tweets about some measurement value, e.g. temperature, voltage, or some other physical parameter the QuickStart is processing or sampling?

    -Tor
  • twctwc Posts: 107
    edited 2013-05-24 07:22
    Hey Mike: I'm not a twit, so I don't have a clue :=) But there are some generic apps/tasks folks want to do, maybe twitter would be applicable. One is sensor networks, so I guess a host PC could 'follow' each node to monitor/consolidate twits from multiple sensors? Another is event notification (ex: 'Chickens have fled the coop'). An option for the latter: what's involved to send an SMS text to a phone? I'd thought e-mail would be good for these kinds of apps, but the fact many e-mail servers demand encryption now is a problem.
  • RforbesRforbes Posts: 281
    edited 2013-05-24 10:31
    Perhaps the reason to tweet could be pointless tweeting. Just humorous things, satirical takes on breaking news, odd facts, updates on Neko, wacky horoscopes, etc.

    Personally, I'd tune in to it if I *knew* there was always a chance of getting a fabulous Spam-based meatball recipe one day and the next I might read something interesting new fact about gravity space probe B.
  • Mike GMike G Posts: 2,702
    edited 2013-05-25 13:09
    Well... I wired up a W5200 client for a test tweet - and - no dice. It looks like Twitter tightened security and only allows HTTPS. Oh well...

    I have a Roving Networks WiFi device that handles SSL. I'l look into building a library. Hopefully, I can build a socket layer like the W5200.
  • Mike GMike G Posts: 2,702
    edited 2013-05-26 10:25
    The Roving Networks WiFi device does NOT handle SSL either. Geezzz... At least it was really easy to configure and get running.

    Now I working with the WizNet WizFi210. The WizFi210 does handle SSL. This SSL stuff is important if ya want to consume www services.
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