October 27, 2008 – Hacked Gadgets

Twittering Teddy Bear using Arduino Microcontroller

Alan Parekh October 27, 2008 6

This creative hack allows you to modify a teddy bear to read all of your tweets coming from Twitter. "Guru Alison and I performed some, uh, innovative 2.0 surgery on an old childhood friend. The result: a real-time Twittering, talking, live-streaming social media phenomenon. I worked with my team at the Drexel Music and Entertainment Technology Lab to develop Teddy’s text-to-speech software. MATERIALS: * Animatronic Teddy Bear * USB

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Simulated LED Flame Flicker using an Arduino

Alan Parekh October 27, 2008 2

This Simulated LED Flame Flicker project is just the thing that is needed for all of those pumpkins that will be put out this year. It can run sufficiently long on a battery and will not burn anyone. The code is not up yet but should be posted soon. "The code accepts an arbitrary number of LED outputs, with a minimum brightness for the general glow. A peak brightness