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YES! I have a project that I want to make tweet and this is more incentive for me to get it done. Thank you for the opportunity.
Nice contest! Tweet tweet chirp! ^_^
Here’s some Processing + Twitter + OAuth example code in case it is of use to anyone: http://robotgrrl.com/blog/2011/02/21/simple-processing-twitter/
I don’t like ther resistor reading.
I am color blind and had to ask my son what the colors were.
(Just like when I am picking through a bag of resistors for a project !)