I am unescapable. Behold my tweet stream as I report every time our boss, Jason Peterson finally sits down. See it in action at Twitter.com/BossTracker5000Tumblr (3.0; @bosstracker5000)http://bosstracker5000.tumblr.com/<p><strong>Sit, Boss, Sit!</strong> Our boss Jason Peterson can be a hard guy to track down, to solve this problem we created a funky little device aptly named the &#8220;<strong><a href="http://twitter.com/bosstracker5000" title="The BossTracker5000 on Twitter" target="_blank">BossTracker5000</a></strong>&#8221; that takes his picture and posts it to Twitter every time he sits down and gets up (whether he wants it to or not&#8230;). </p> <p><strong>See it in action at <a href="http://twitter.com/bosstracker5000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter.com/bosstracker5000</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Watch the video below to see how our idea came to life:</strong></p> <p> <object height="225" width="400"> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=35769153&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0"></object> </p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/35769153" target="_blank">The BossTracker5000</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5667966" target="_blank">EuroRSCGChi</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>.</p> <p><strong><strong>How it works:</strong></strong></p> <p><strong><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyu1s4JOjH1qklawo.jpg"/></strong></p> <p>The <strong><a href="http://twitter.com/bosstracker5000" title="The BossTracker5000 on Twitter" target="_blank">BossTracker5000</a> </strong>is triggered by a reed-switch sensor that monitors magnetic proximity. The signal is sent through an Arduino board to a Processing sketch, which tells the computer to snap a webcam photo of Peterson and upload it to Twitpic with a saying chosen from a pool of prewritten zingers. The Twitpic post is immediately loaded to the <strong><a href="http://twitter.com/bosstracker5000" title="BossTracker5000 on Twitter" target="_blank">BossTracker5000′s</a></strong> Twitter feed. Voila! A chair that tweets.</p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyu0jj68cp1qklawo.jpg"/></p> <p><br/><br/><strong>How it comes together on Twitter:</strong></p> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyu1kzGNI51qklawo.jpg"/></p> <p><strong>A few more samples of the tweets that are randomized along with the snapped photo:</strong><br/><br/></p> <blockquote>“Crouching tiger, sitting Jason.”<br/>“Sit happens.”<br/>“I’m in my office if you’d like to play Monopoly. And by play Monopoly, I mean do my expense reports.”<br/>“I’m back, and business is takin’ care of me.”<br/>“I heard the ice cream truck!”</blockquote> <p><strong><br/></strong></p> <h3><strong><img height="60" src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzecg9kee1qklawo.png" width="60"/></strong></h3> <h3><strong><a href="http://twitter.com/bosstracker5000" title="BossTracker5000 on Twitter" target="_blank">The BossTracker5000</a> is live!</strong></h3> <p><strong> See it in action at <a href="http://twitter.com/bosstracker5000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter.com/bosstracker5000</a></strong></p>http://bosstracker5000.tumblr.com/post/16983729368http://bosstracker5000.tumblr.com/post/16983729368Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:52:00 -0600