Sub-consciously we tend to attach certain smells, sounds and adjectives with places where we have been. For example, the smell of stew might remind you of days when you were down with fever and mother used to cook meals at home. Every city also has a character and mood that we associate with different adjectives.
New York is considered a busy metropolis and visitors describe the mood of the place as irritable or angry. People are always on the go and life is very busy in this city. New Orleans is very different from New York and can be described as festive or jovial. The mood of a place like Denver in Colorado is hard to define. That is exactly why Chadwick John Friedman has invented the 3D Printed Twitter Mood Lamp that as the name suggests reads the mind of people.
The designer has brought three different things, i.e. 3D printer, the dwellers of Denver who use Twitter and an Arduino Yun, together to create the 3D Printed Twitter Mood Lamp. Arduino Yun is a special type of microcontroller that can interact with Linux distribution system. Friedman has used Twitter for evaluating and analyzing the mood of Denver residents.
Further, he has made a list of keywords associated with particular moods and emotions. A code-generating platform based on cloud technology, Temboo, has also been used for entering Twitter API. After retrieval, the tweets have to be outputted using the Arduino microcontroller.
The evaluation of tweets helps in categorizing mood of people into categories like happy, sad or angry. For minimizing the amount of data from Tweeter, the designer has limited the retrieval to a 12-mile radius within Denver metropolis. Users can make the Yun forget retrieved tweets for using the device for a longer period. Though sleek and easy to use, the mood lamp is not costly at all. If the mood lamp turns orange, it shows angry mood, while the blue color indicates sadness.
Source: 3dprint
