For Grand Union’s Christmas “thing” 2012 we
built an animatronic robin redbreast to spew a stream of ribald drunken twitter
tweets during the party season. We integrated staff party photos (shot from over
head height) to build a party animal twitter persona. He perched in GU’s
reception, where arduino/servo innards let him burp, fart, swig, and play
Christmas videos on his ipad to anyone tweeting #commands to him.
