a public text box is a basic information sharing utility for a shared space. in this case, it’s a twitter account associated with a specific machine in a shared space rather than a person(who could be anywhere).
we tried this on macosx and linux. windows not tested but should work fine afaik.
1) download software and libraries
Processing: http://processing.org, Control P5 Library: http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/controlP5, Fullscreen library: http://www.superduper.org/processing/fullscreen_api/, Twitter Java library, twitter4j-core-v#.jar, http://twitter4j.org
2) the code https://gist.github.com/1267563
3) where to put things, this will vary slightly with your OS, but should look about the same. if you open processing and save the same sketch and then search for that it will probably be something like /Documents/Processing/sketch_023d
So you want to create a folder processing/publictextbox and publictextbox.pde will go in there. Then create /processing/publictextbox/code and controlP5.jar, fullscreen.jar, and twitter4j-core-version#.jar files will go in there.
file locations for processing scketch and libraries, will be a .txt file with keys in it too
4) register and get twitter keys, put keys into .pde code
5) test it out yo! do yer best debugginn.
6) make some keyboard modifications. maybe if you’re going to put this in a public place you should make a keyboard that has no ESC or CTL key so people can’t get out of the app once it’s running?
7) build a box. make it look nice. think ATM, public telephone, arcade game. get crafty and creative. i believe in you!
8) maybe you will have an auto shutdown and restart that will allow the installation to run long term without crashing as much?? see video for mac version of this. on linux it will be crontab. on windows the answer is ??
subscribe to the feed and watch the strange messages role in….
http://twitter.com/#!/publictextbox
could you make the same for something like a reddit/facebook/?? account?
some random notes about using old mac 10.4 machine…
http://www.webrelatedstuff.com/blog/ffmpeg%20and%20ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-installation-on-mac-osx
https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action
Tags: appliance, broadcaster, processing, text, twitter
January 27, 2012 at 3:03 pm |
[...] the interests of open communication in shared spaces, [dan] made a public text box that serves as a terminal to the @publictextbox twitter account. We could see something like this [...]
January 27, 2012 at 3:30 pm |
[...] the interests of open communication in shared spaces, [dan] made a public text box that serves as a terminal to the @publictextbox twitter account. We could see something like this [...]
January 27, 2012 at 5:33 pm |
Hi there,
Seems I’m getting a NullPointerException relate to numTweeets=statuses.size();
Was there a newer version pushed out? It looks like this is never changed value from when it is instantiated.
Cool idea, though.
January 27, 2012 at 9:30 pm |
this is the script that is running on the machine. i only uploaded it once it was running. double check library locations and the like?
January 28, 2012 at 8:18 pm
I’m retarded, had an error message just above that, which eventually led to me seeing I had used an incorrect Twitter4j library. Cool program!
January 27, 2012 at 8:31 pm |
[...] the interests of open communication in shared spaces, [dan] made a public text box that serves as a terminal to the @publictextbox twitter account. We could see something like this [...]
January 28, 2012 at 8:14 am |
[...] the interests of open communication in shared spaces, [dan] made a public text box that serves as a terminal to the @publictextbox twitter account. We could see something like this [...]