I'm looking to produce a twitter lamp with the Arduino. Say the user of the lamp is me, the lamp will light up when I receive a tweet or a retweet. I want two different colours for the two tweets, any idea on how I could do that?
Also I want to use a force sensitive resistor to turn the light off when the user has notice that they have a tweet, kind off like resetting the lamp? Is there any good tutorials or code that anyone knows about ?
your best bet is probably somehow connecting it to your phone using processing for android (http://wiki.processing.org/w/Android), this way you can access the twitter api via arduino. also would need a bluetooth module to connect to the phone. and even using atTiny2313 (http://www.atmel.com/devices/attiny2313.aspx) if you need something small to fix in a tiny space in the lamp.