Twttrbnnr = Twitter.com + banner with mobile Internet
How does it work?
We‘ve been working in a couple of projects involving mobile phone connectivity (GPRS), GPS and internet-enabled but autonomous LED banners for the some time now. For them we’ve developed a device, called Natrium, capable of running java applications, connecting to the Internet via GPRS, and talking to connected devices through RS-232, RS-485, i2c, and others. We use the excellent gumstix platform with our custom developed boards.
As a demo application we thought that pulling RSS feeds would be cool; then we found twitter.com.
In a couple of days we put together a demo with twitter, pulling the RSS feed for a user, and the twttrbnnr was born!
More photos here.
We’re staring our field tests next week. Cruzemos los dedos!
