This is an experiment with Node.js, Twitter, Sphero and the Alchemy API. The idea was to get a general "vibe" of current tweets and represent that using a Sphero.

• Pull tweets from the twitter streaming API
• Pass them to the Alchemy API to get the sentiment of the tweet
• Adjust the Sphero color accordingly

We also tried it with 3 spheros and shoved them into an Ikea lamp

Resources

• Alchemy API - http://www.alchemyapi.com/
• Sphero - http://www.gosphero.com/

Development

Create a file called config.js in the root dir

It should look like this

module.exports = {
	twitter : {
		consumerKey : 'your consumer key',
		consumerSecret : 'your consumer secret',
		accessTokenKey : 'your access token key',
		accessTokenSecret : 'your access token secret'
	},
	alchemy : {
		apiKey : 'your api key'
	}
}

The following command will watch and compile the Coffeescript.

• run cake dev