Two men have built a popcorn-making robot that serves up a new batch whenever someone mentions #popcorn on Twitter.
Popcorn Tweets was created by Dave Britt and Justin Goeres as their entry into a contest held by popcorn manufacturer Fireworks Popcorn.
The pair writes of the invention:
“A custom LabVIEW program polls Twitter for any mention of #popcorn, and for each Tweet, activates a LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot to power some Rube Goldberg sort of contraption...
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