Wake Up with a Tweet: How to Make a Twitter-Controlled Coffee Pot

Maybe we should have saved this post for Monday morning, but it was just too cool to wait: you can rig up your coffee pot to start brewing with a single tweet. Whether you’re on your way home from work or lying lethargically in bed, you can start that fresh aroma floating around your apartment with a little hardware and some cellphone reception.

The Twitter-to-coffee pot works like this: you tweet using a hashtag “to” your coffee pot, which starts a script.

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