Check out my Popcorn-Popping LabVIEW / NXT / Twitter Robot!

[Justin Goeres]

If you follow me on Twitter you might already know that a friend and I recently entered a Popcorn company's contest to make a video of the "most inventive way to pop this all-American snack." Our idea: Write a LabVIEW program to find #popcorn tweets on Twitter, drive an NXT-powered contraption to deliver popcorn to a popping machine, and create the world's first crowd-sourced Internet snack!

If you watched it, and if you liked it, and if you're on Facebook, can you now do me a favor?

We're trying to win a contest here. To win, this video needs to have the most Likes on the Fireworks Popcorn's Facebook Wall.

The easiest way to vote is the following:

1. Make sure you're logged into Facebook (if you're not a Facebook member you can't vote, so you can stop now )
2. Click this link to go directly to the post about the video.
3. Click the Become a Fan button to become a fan of Fireworks Popcorn. You should stay on the same page as in #2; if it redirected you somewhere else, click the link in #2 again.
4. Click the Like link under the post about the video.

Thanks!

[Justin Goeres]

A different friend of mine submitted it to Digg:

http://digg.com/gadg...popcorn_machine

I dugg it!

[Yair]

The movie is great, but I gotta ask: who do you have eating all that popcorn? Also, do you do any kind of analysis on the data (like distribution of tweets over time of day, etc.)?

[Jim Kring]

I dugg it!

[Phillip Brooks]

The popper is on Engadget!

Don't forget to use synchtube if you want to view the youtube video real time with your friends (my nephew will appreciate it)...

Edited February 7, 2010 by Phillip Brooks