Paintball gun that fires when you tweet a certain hashtag
Posted by staff / March 6, 2013 paint splatterPaintball gun
Somewhere there is a paintball gun aimed at a whiteboard in a room that will respond and fire if it receives a tweet with the hashtag #islpaint.
Apparently it gets taken off-line pretty regularly because of the mess and paint splatter but it does work. And that supposedly is part of the attraction: making a mess that you don’t have to clean up.
This is Paintbot from iStrategyLabs, and is part of their work with “social machines”.
These devices let activities that happen in the social media realm impact events in the real world. Previous projects included a social fridge and a Foursquare-activated drinks cooler. The paintball gun works thanks to an Arduino processor.
For more info see: CNET and iStrategyLabs.
Photo credit: spline_x – Fotolia.com
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