Tweeting Bar Tweets Each Beer Pour (Video)

We’ve seen lots of Things That Go Tweet in the night, and now you can add another to the list.

360i, a digital agency in New York, has rigged their office beer tap (why am I not working THERE?) to send a tweet every time someone pours a beer. In fact, it will even tweet when the keg is empty.

The Tweeting Bar came into existence after the powers that be at the agency began researching sensor technologies that would interact with Twitter. They, in turn, turned to Keg-Meter and worked with them to develop a unique interface that is able to send flow data via a serial port.

More from the company:

“Within days, we had the product in hand. In studying the device, Mike and 360i Tech VP Tim Driscoll learned how its sensor “felt” the beer being sucked down the hose. After adjusting the meter sensitivity so the numbers on the LED readout accurately reflected the change in volume, they then ensured the signals were being transferred down the serial cable. Mike and Tim wired the apparatus up to the serial port, drew another 12-ounces and hoped for the best.

It worked! Characters appeared on the laptop screen each time a draft was drawn. The tap could now make noise, even if he didn’t have anything to say yet. Each time Mike and Tim pulled a draft, new random characters appeared on the screen. Though the tap’s lexicon was painfully limited, this was the consistency – and promise – they’d hoped to see. It was now time to configure the server and software.”