@publictextbox is a Twitter enabled phone booth
posted Jan 27th 2012 8:01am by Brian Benchofffiled under: misc hacks
In the interests of open communication in shared spaces, [dan] made a public text box that serves as a terminal to the @publictextbox twitter account. We could see something like this being useful in a hackerspace or other hang out to announce to the world the happenings of the resident makers and builders.
The software setup is very simple and can run on just about any old computer you might have lying disused in a corner. The app is built with Processing, and the code is extremely simple and easily modifiable. Even though the case is a lovely cardboard number, the Twitter Box can be dressed up as any imaginable form. We’d love to see a nice TARDIS blue, but we’ll leave that up to [dan].
You can check out the demo of the Twitter phone box after the break. Alternatively, you could re-tweet this post and take part in a load test for the @publictextbox.
This would be awesome except twitter is now working for big brother: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-twitter-censor-tweets-individual-countries.html