Kurt Sprague's Technical Portfolio
Tweets in Colorado LED Map
A Project for Hack CU IV
For the University of Colorado's 4th annual hackathon, 3 friends and I came together to make a project that could analyze tweets, and have a visual representation of those tweets. Since Twitter is very popular, we decided to represent the 11 major cities of Colorado based on the general mood of their tweets. Green being happy, red angry, and a gradient of colors in between. We split up into teams of two: a hardware team and a software team.
My Contribution
My major contribution to this project was wiring, and pin management. It was my job to make sure the information we pulled from Twitter could be represented on LEDs. In the beginning we started with the MSP-EXP432P401R from Texas Instruments, but ran into the problem that the pins had an output voltage that was too low for the LED map. We fixed this by switching to an Arduino UNO. This fixed the problem and the map was fully functional.
