Mar 15, 2012
David Bowen
Fly Tweet
(Video)
This device sends twitter messages based on the activities of a swarm of houseflies. The flies live inside an acrylic sphere along with a computer keyboard. As the flies move and interact inside their home they fly over the keys on the keyboard. These movements are collected in real-time via video. As a particular key is triggered by the flies the key’s corresponding character is entered into a twitter text box. When 140 characters are reached or the flies trigger the “enter” key the message containing the accumulated characters is tweeted. Thus twitter messages are sent in real-time based on the predilections of the swarm of flies.