Taking on the appearance of a Zen garden, our sand box receives tweets and draws them in the sand. A concealed, custom made x, y plotter and arduino pair - which both rest beneath the sand’s surface - act together to actualize the user\'s tweet instructions into sand drawings.<br /> The idea is to create a temporary physical manifestation of casual digital communication. We’ve chosen sand as a medium to reference ephemeral messaging of the past; drawing, mapping, or mark making in the sand.

Background
When the medium of sand meets the medium of twitter you get SoZen, a Zen garden you can tweet to. Infinite grains of sand, infinite pixels, endless doodles, never ending tweets. Leave your mark in the sand from anywhere.<br /> Tweet @ SendZen <br />• circle 200 200 300 <br /> eg. circle x location y location diamater<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />• rect 300 400 100 150<br /><br /><br /><br /> ie rectangle shape x location y location width height <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />• line 0 0 500 500<br /><br /><br /><br /> ie line x start location y start location x end location y end location

Audience
Everyone! Tweet from any smart phone or computer!

User Scenario
User tweets drawing instructions to our sendZen account and a steel marble draws it in the sand.