Tweetosapien: Hack a Robosapien With Arduino to React to Tweets

A really fun project sent into us by Thomas Meghe. He’s translated it all from his native French, which is a technical achievement itself. If you’d like to see the original, you can find it here.

Bored of your favorite Twitter client ? No problem, here’s the solution ! In this post we are going to explain how to control the awesome WowWee Robosapien with a wirelessly connected Arduino to trigger some actions on the robot through a specific Twitter hashtag.

Goals

• Hack the Robosapien with Arduino
• Deploy an app on Heroku allowing it to be available 24/24
• Use the Twitter streaming API to watch new tweets posted on the #tweetosapien hashtag
• Use websockets with Pusher to send events to Arduino