Earthquake Detectoconfirmeter
Motivation. Group project, final for embedded systems class. I worked with one other person to build an earthquake detection and confirmation system. We used an Arduino board with accelerometer and ethernet shield components. The accelerometer detected tremors, then the ethernet shield called a PHP script that polled Twitter for earthquake-related tweets by keywords (e.g., earthquake, tremor). Interestingly this project was done in time prior to the US East Coast quake in Aug 2011 in which people tweeted about the earthquake before those further from the epicenter even felt it.
Technology. I was responsible for the PHP script. This was my first use of the Twitter API. The output of the PHP was a fairly simple boolean (0/1). The script is capable of polling for keywords as well as from specific users (e.g., @Earthquake, @QuakeSOS). For the final demo, we polled from a Twitter account we had control over to demonstrate a false alarm and a "true" earthquake.
Technology. I was responsible for the PHP script. This was my first use of the Twitter API. The output of the PHP was a fairly simple boolean (0/1). The script is capable of polling for keywords as well as from specific users (e.g., @Earthquake, @QuakeSOS). For the final demo, we polled from a Twitter account we had control over to demonstrate a false alarm and a "true" earthquake.