Comments on: Twittering toaster

By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:58:09 +0000

Hardy, yes the iobridge can send to other addresses. I also have it ubernote – ing some environmental data like temp, humidity, color depth. Soon, myToaster will make the best toast as possible.

By: Hardy

Hardy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:10:14 +0000

That setup looks pretty easy. Can the bridge send stuff to other addresses. Who cares about Twitter? I want something that tells ME.

By: Younube

Younube — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:17:02 +0000

I am the last to find this toaster. I notice every latest project has twitted involved.

By: NH

NH — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:43:44 +0000

I want an analog proof of concept next. Maybe volume displacement in my toilet is next.

By: Clasherr

Clasherr — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:00:44 +0000

This is a big step-I think I get it-the site can also send a text on any type of event

By: PKM

PKM — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:57:48 +0000

@ “of itself this is useless”- well of course it is, but it demonstrates how to make your home appliances update twitter which could be useful if you want to monitor pets, your heating furnace, a weather station, your underground robot-automated meth lab, etc.

@ “what is the point of twitter in the first place”- I wonder what the point of using it as a real-time LJ/blog/online bitching machine is, but every once in a while there is an occurrence that I want to share with a few people I know would appreciate it (finding nostalgic items of snack food I thought had disappeared years ago, finally seeing the film trailer I was waiting for online, you get the idea).

By: J

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:41:14 +0000

Could have at least put the switch inside. And it only works on the one side. And it’d be far better if it told you what setting you had it on. Better yet, as mentioned in the comments, it’d actually be useful if you could enter “making toast” on twitter and the toaster started the process. Although your bread might get dry waiting :)

By: Me

Me — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:58:00 +0000

I’m going to hook up something like this to my washer and dryer.

By: fractalrock

fractalrock — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:43:58 +0000

I’ve got some bad news about the company marketing this hardware…(iobridge.net)…apparently the hardware is setup to *only* go thru their server. :/
See forum post here: http://www.iobridge.net/forum/index.php/topic,9.0.html
So…now if/when they go out of business or their site is down you are fscked. Awesome. I don’t want to use their server even if it *never* went down…I hate being locked in.

By: J

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:19:31 +0000

I struggle to understand twitter and its tweaters in general, these are items in peoples life that simple are unimportant to everyone else in the world, why waste bandwidth (however plentiful it is) updating people with things that in no way enrich their lives?!

By: mig

mig — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:06:12 +0000

thnaks to everyone who has confirmed my utter bewilderment at the whole concept of twitter.

“so and so is feeling sad”

“someone you hate has just bought some new climbing shoes”

I don’t give a flying f**K!!!

By: Billbert

Billbert — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:34:58 +0000

this is Completely useless, who gives a crap when someone is making toast, next the user will have it send the status update to his phone, to make sure he knows he’s making toast.

Or he will have instant notification in the event that his toaster decides to go on a rampage.

By: Billbert

Billbert — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:33:15 +0000

@zsteva

attention Twitter users, %username% has just delivered his powerload.

By: zsteva

zsteva — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:57:01 +0000

whats next ? twitter condoms ?

By: anthony

anthony — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:18:16 +0000

@3d and ultraapple: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/23/le-twittre/ also noteworthy is http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/12/17/

a twittering toaster? i care not so much. a twittering shower head? might actually be useful to monitor your water usage with, especially if you could compare your usage to others. could also be good for monitoring other devices in the house (especially when you tell the kids/wife/husband/llama not to use it).