Tweets send your balls flying (on TV)

2/7/2012

Members from the London Hackerspace recently got a little on-air time with a ping pong ball launcherThey were invited to build something for the Click show on BBCThe launcher that they built responds to hash tags on Twitter by barraging the audience with balls.

The hardware was built in two partsThe first is a [...].

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