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A little over a day ago, my roommate introduced Twittjr to the internet at large by submitting it to Hack a Day (whose commenters are apparently a very tough crowd). From there it spread to BoingBoing and started making its way through the blogosphere, resulting in the Twittjr page gaining about 2,500 views in the past 24 hours! [...]
Twittjr is a system that allows an IBM PCjr to search the public timeline on Twitter. In case you weren’t aware, Twitter is a social micro-blogging service introduced in 2006 and has over five million active users. The IBM PCjr is a personal computer introduced in 1984 and has a 4.77MHz processor, 128KB of RAM, and uses 360KB floppy disks [...]
After an exhausting 7-to-5 day preceded by less than two hours of sleep, the second annual RIT innovation fair-stival is done. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see most of the exciting stuff because I spent the day hanging around Twittjr with a bunch of other CSHers (and occasionally taking joyrides in our new motorized shopping cart). The downside [...]
Recently I’ve been getting my new project, “Twittjr” (a mashup of Twitter and an IBM PCjr), ready to attract people to the CSH booth at GCCIS for ImagineRIT. Coding in Cartridge BASIC on a PCjr is simultaneously a fascinating and frustrating experience. On the one hand, it’s kind of annoying to not have any modern conveniences like, say, functions. But [...]