neo/smartclassroom

Smart classroom powered by Arduino

Smart Classroom

This is a project to hook up an Arduino borad to Twitter using Python. It takes data information from an Aruino in the classroom and tweet to the Twitter account @SheridanS421.

The project is based on pySerial, Python Arduino Prototyping API v2 and Tweepy.

Basic Setup

1. Go to Twitter Apps to create an app and generate your API tokens if you haven't already
2. Hook up the Arduino board with the sensors and output devices. This is a example hooking up with a button, a 16 * 2 LCD and a ADXL345 accelerometer:
3. Clone this repository or Download ZIP
4. Paste your Twitter API tokens to tweet.py
5. Use the Arduino IDE to open the ArduinoAPI.ino under the directory ArduinoAPI
6. Start from a new .py file under the same directory, and here is a basic template:

from arduino import *
from tweet import *
arduino = Arduino('COM6') // Use the Arduino port
arduino.output([])

Basic Example

Here is a basic example that tweets when someone presses the button:

from tweet import *
from arduino import *

arduino = Arduino('COM6')
arduino.output([])

buttonPin = 8

print "INITIATE"
today = 0
total = 0

while True:
	button = arduino.getState(buttonPin)
	time.sleep(0.1)
	if button:
		today += 1
		total += 1
		tmp = arduino.getTemp()
		arduino.LCD(today, total, int(round(tmp)))
		name = str(raw_input("Who pressed me?! "))
		print tweet(name + " pressed the big red button!")
		time.sleep(1)

It gets the name from user input in the Python console when somebody presses the button and send a tweet with the name.