it should tweet the pastor when his sermon starts going over, man my pastor could really use that…

none will know the time…

but all will know what is the time…

Would be funny to program this to run progressively more slowly over the course of a service.

More unnecessary use of twitter…

Religion sucks ass, more hacks.. less ass.

SWEET twitter AND an arduino :) does it get much better then that.

@monkeyslayer56

the phrase is “doesn’t get much better than that”. and yes it does. not everyone is hung up on the twitter and arduino craze. to most of us, this is pretty pointless. just because it uses a popular web “service” and a popular microprocessor does not automatically make it an awesome processor.

Good thing they avoided those complicated buttons, nothing like trendy Web 2.0 services to streamline your usability.

@Klaymen
it was more of a joke then anything and i said “DOES it get much better then that” not “it doesn’t get much better then that”

In the interest of making it easy to control, he’s made a Rube Goldberg clock/timer/counter….

I like it

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4RdU1n0 5+Yl3 m33+Z +w1++3R..

@jan It worries me that I can understand that.

why do all these anti-religion nuts always feel compelled to trash-talk religion? the article didn’t push any views. it simply used the word “church”. how horribly intolerant…

>anti-religion nuts

People that believe in sky fairies, stoning people to death, covering up sexual abuse etc etc shouldn’t really go about saying others are nuts IMHO.

This project, posted on HaD, linked to my project as part of the background info. That’s gotta be worth some nerd points.

@monkeyslayer56 – I imagine the complaint about language was the use of “then” instead of “than”. “Then” is a relative point in time, while “than” is used for comparison. Since you used the same word not only in the original post but also in the follow-up, it indicates a lack of awareness of which word should be used rather than a simple typo. In addition, the structure of your OP is a query, so should have been terminated with a question mark rather than a period. I’m not the grammar police, but the increasing confusion between “then” and “than” is annoying.

antitheist ftw.

god said let them have no buttons, then god said “lol ok, maybe they can use twitter and a keyboard full of buttons” and he thusly lol’d(and caused a thunderstorm). thus god made the story of “the large church LED clock” longer than it ever needed to be… and had it added to the new testament… and also in microbible print… and also onto the shell of a tortoise, which he taunted Buddha with.

@ Raged, Twitter is a useless pile of shit and so is Plurk and all of the other ‘social’ websites.

Other than the fact that this is way too much effort for something so simple I guess you can bank another cha-ching on your Arduino advert points yes? It Twitter kicking in now too?

( insert anti religious comment here)
can we get back on topic about the hack ?
its a VERY cool hack, sure somewhat un-necessary and over engineered but, thats what hacks are sometimes about !
( insert statement about what religion/s i do/dont belong to )

“somewhat un-necessary and over engineered”

i’m totally unsure what you mean by “somewhat”

Flying spaghetti monster FTW!!!

Bow to my noodly appendages.

Twitter isn’t entirely useless. Surprisingly, there have been two good uses its been put to;

First, rioters have used it to keep ahead of police movements in real-time. Definite win.

Secondly, us old farts have discovered a message with embedded link with a tag that is really heavily searched at that moment will get literally tens of thousands of young’uns that don’t get the reference to Goatse themselves over their smartphones simultaneously, like a herd of lemmings.
That’s gotta be worth something. Not much, but something.

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cantido said:
It’s weird how there are “techy” people, who should be fairly rational, believe in fairy tales.
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You’re right. How could any *rational* person believe that one day, for *no* reason at all, a pin-dot appeared, exploded, and then became an entire universe. Not only that, but randomly, pi, planck’s constant, gravitation constants, the values for strong and weak nuclear forces, e, the speed of light, and a hundred other critical universal parameters just happened to be right to allow for the formation of stars and fusion processes to form heavier elements. Then, magically, a planet was formed at the perfect distance from the correct-sized and aged sun, surrounded by a moon that was just right to stabilize the spin of that planet and induce tides. Then, molecules randomly assembled themselves to form living structures that scientists, after a 100 years of study, still cannot reproduce. Lets not forget that these primitive structures then developed, on the basis of natural selection and mutation, into beings capable of pondering god and their own creation (a talent, by the way, that has no “evolutionary” benefit, and should not have developed via “evolution.”

I expect scientists to be brutally honest about objective data. The idea that all of this happened by chance is absurd. The *data* shows evidence of refined design. As an engineer, I can recognize the difference between random events and design. Can you?

You are correct that there are *large* numbers of otherwise rational people who are buying into utter bullshit, but it’s not the people you think.

@darwin

I’ve always put it this way to religous fanatics – Sure god (or whatever surpreme being(s) you believe in) may have created us, evolution is HOW we were created.

@octel
scientist != !religious
religious != !scientist

@octel

that’s cool. as long as you just leave me be to design comm equipment AND go to church.

>See this >page for more details:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

Tell you what… I haven’t insulted your intelligence by quoting the bible, so don’t insult my intelligence by quoting “wikipedia.”

But, since you think *you* are a scientist, why don’t you quantify for me what you think the numerical odds are that the universe would turn out the way it is, given that all things are random.

>Not magically, but scientifically. There are >clearly defined laws and guidelines…

I love that! Since when do random events result in “laws and guidelines?” Laws and guidelines are generated by *intelligence.* They don’t emerge when you throw a fistful of crap against a wall.

>Also, as far as the earth, moon, and sun being >correctly positions, please refer to the page on >the anthropic principle.

Blah blah blah.

>“Then, molecules randomly assembled themselves >to form living structures that scientists, after >a 100 years of study, still cannot reproduce.”
>This is absurd. What molecules can’t scientists >reproduce? Name one.

In your zest to impress us, you’ve demonstrated that you don’t read very carefully. I said that the thing that scientists cannot reproduce are *living things.* The best they can do is modify living things, or combine parts of living things. They cannot create them from scratch. When and if they ever do, this will not undermine the argument for intelligent design, it underscores it. In other words, how is it that advanced technology is required to reproduce an effect that you claim was caused by nothing more than the flip of a coin?

>Not everything has to have an “evolutionary” >benefit. Evolved traits only come into play in a >critical way when they they determine the >lifespan/number of offspring or the creature in >question. Maybe the ability to ponder “god” is >actually an evolutionary DETRIMENT, since when >too many humans ponder “god” differently they >end up mass-murdering each other over >conflicting beliefs.

I see. I suppose in your mind this trait must have arisen from a gamma ray that disrupted some DNA somewhere and created a mutation. Man, are you reaching.

“The *data* shows evidence of refined design.”
>Prove it.

Easy. Let’s conduct an experiment. Each of us will receive 10 tons of earth with minerals in it. I will take my 10 tons, and through intelligent design, refine the minerals, cast, extrude, forge and machine parts, and then assemble a working pocket watch. You, on the other hand, will observe your pile of dirt sit as it undergoes “random” natural processes.

I hope you are honest enough to admit that the universe will be a cold, dark, dead place, in which every star has burned it self out, long before enough time has passed for your dirt to have spontaneously assembled itself into a watch– or anything else for that matter.

“You are correct that there are *large* numbers of otherwise rational people who are buying into utter bullshit, but it’s not the people you think.”
>Die in a fire.

Funny. You connect belief in god with mass-murder, and then you, an enlightened non-believer, wish me death. Obviously I touched a nerve.

The funny thing is that, of the two of us, *you* are the religious one. You are the one who has invested yourself in a faith in theories that are short on answers, and full of holes. On the other hand, I’m willing to look at explanations that match the data, even if it offends my (or other peoples’) secular sensibilities.

>However, thanks for advertising the fact that >you’re unfit to be a scientist. You might be >able to design some widget, but a scientist you >are not.

I don’t think you know what a scientist is. The hallmark of a *real* scientist is the ability to be *objective,* and to fit the theory to the data, not the other way around. Given your obviously rigid belief system, and your desire to see people who disagree with you “die in a fire,” I submit that it is *you* who is unfit to be a scientist. You are incapable of viewing the world from any vantage point but your own.

Do some research on pons and fleischmann. these people were objective enough to report an observed physical effect, even though it did not fit in with accepted models. the two were, pardon the phrase, “crucified” for doing so by people with your attitude. Emerging research is beginning to show that they were correct. I wonder how many of the pompous experts that assailed them have the character to apologize.

There seems to be a lot of hate for twitter interfaces. Knobs and buttons? The thing is on a balcony, and the arduino was out of I/O in my design. Twitter is the easiest thing for non-techie people to use.

@mike it does use an ntp server, I’m not using a RTC so the timing is not 100%, it requires daily syncing.

@cantido GPIO on the wrt, now that would be tight. I didn’t think about that. I needed the router instead of a shield because I needed the ability to connect to my vpn, and be a little more reliable. The church doesn’t control the network there so it needs to be a dumb dhcp client and phone home.

@therian I was going to do IR, but the thing is people always lose remotes. If I had more IO and time I would have done both IR and twitter

It was an interesting project, but still, serious overkill, all you need is a cheap open-wrt router and an avr with a rtc (yes, I’m a PIC hater). No need for Arduino and $80 Linksys.