{"id":956,"date":"2012-06-27T14:46:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=956"},"modified":"2019-05-20T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:52:33","slug":"a-twitter-powered-gumball-machine-built-on-thingspeak-arduino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2012\/06\/27\/a-twitter-powered-gumball-machine-built-on-thingspeak-arduino\/","title":{"rendered":"A Twitter Powered Gumball Machine Built on ThingSpeak + Arduino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin, from the brilliant minds at Philter Communications,\u00a0created a gumball machine known as the Tweet-a-Tweat. This clever device\u00a0encourages social media interaction. People who visit your office need to send a Tweet to <a title=\"Follow Tweet-a-tweat on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/tweetatweat\">@tweetatweat<\/a>\u00a0to get a tasty gumball. The idea is to stimulate your brand by offering a real-world interaction. The combination of social media+internet of things forms a powerful link and the &#8220;web of things&#8221;\u00a0vision\u00a0emerges. We love working with our partners to enable strong(er)\u00a0relationships with customers, coworkers, and\u00a0visitors; and ultimately seeing new ideas take shape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type='text\/javascript'>  \nwindow.onload = document.write(\"<iframe width='560' height='345' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' scrolling='no' frameborder='0'  src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4_eHZaE_E1A?rel=0' ><\/iframe> \"); \n <\/script><\/p>\n<p>The technology behind Tweet-a-Tweat\u00a0is Arduino + ThingSpeak &#8212; this is another powerful combination. The Gumball Machine is from <a title=\"Beaver Gumball Vending Machines\" title=\"http:\/\/beavergumballmachines.com (link no longer works)\" target=\"_blank\">Beaver Vending<\/a>\u00a0and has an\u00a0Arduino inside listening to the TweetControl App from ThingSpeak. TweetControl listens to the Twitter stream for keywords that trigger HTTP requests in real-time. The heavy lifting happens\u00a0in the cloud so that the embedded Arduino only has to focus on moving servos and being ready for web requests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type='text\/javascript'>  \nwindow.onload = document.write(\"<iframe width='560' height='345' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' scrolling='no' frameborder='0'  src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8arH3qVPpak?rel=0' ><\/iframe> \"); \n <\/script><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit\u00a0Tweet-a-Tweat\u00a0and check out the live video feed of Philter&#8217;s Twitter powered gumball machine being operated live.<\/p>\n<p>[via Tweet-a-Tweat]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin, from the brilliant minds at Philter Communications,\u00a0created a gumball machine known as the Tweet-a-Tweat. This clever device\u00a0encourages social media interaction. People who visit your office&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2012\/06\/27\/a-twitter-powered-gumball-machine-built-on-thingspeak-arduino\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[14,237,36,81,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}