{"id":983,"date":"2012-09-04T00:16:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T05:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=983"},"modified":"2012-09-04T00:18:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T05:18:22","slug":"slot-car-race-powered-by-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2012\/09\/04\/slot-car-race-powered-by-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Slot Car Race Powered by Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The community from <a title=\"RS Components on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RSComponents\">RS Components<\/a> created a Scalextric Slot Car Race that is powered by your tweets. Two cars went head-to-head last week with a live Twitter race between a red and blue car. The cars move based on the number of Tweets that included their hashtag. If you want the blue car to win, you needed to Tweet, &#8220;Go #RSBlueTeam&#8221;. The team wrote a web service like\u00a0<a title=\"TweetControl Control Things with Twitter by ThingSpeak\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/documentation\/apps\/tweetcontrol\/\">TweetControl<\/a>\u00a0that pulls in tweets from the Twitter Stream and distributes commands to an <a title=\"Arduino on RS Components\" href=\"http:\/\/uk.rs-online.com\/web\/generalDisplay.html?id=arduino\" target=\"_blank\">Arduino<\/a> that controls the track.\u00a0This is another great project that further demonstrates how social intersects with technology and marketing. Go Tweet Racer!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"http:\/\/trademover.net\/rstweetrace2\/index.htm (link no longer works)\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-984\" title=\"RS Components Twitter Race\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2012\/09\/track_cars_powered_by_twitter.png\" alt=\"RS Components Twitter Race\" width=\"480\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[via <a title=\"RS Components on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RSComponents\">Facebook<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The community from RS Components created a Scalextric Slot Car Race that is powered by your tweets. Two cars went head-to-head last week with a live Twitter race between a red and blue car. The cars&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2012\/09\/04\/slot-car-race-powered-by-twitter\/\">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":[1],"tags":[14,60,77,81,31,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}