Spambot is an organism that can only survive if fed from other bots. When it receives spam, it feeds from it and survives, but when it goes a little while without attention from it's internet brothers, it grows weak and might die.

Spambot is somewhat of a satire of this gardening trend going around on the internet of late. People have been using physical computing methods to take care of plants or animals. I think the idea of feeding a plant via Twitter is as ridiculous as feeding a robot via spam.

How it works
The first part of this project was to create a clever trap for spam. Therefore, I created a simple webpage with a form to fool the bots at http://www.iheartpigeons.com/projects/spambot/manage.php where they can do their thing. Before inserting the submitted form to a database, it is first parsed to see whether or not it originates from a bot. This was made by querying the message string for links, as bots really like links, and returning a true or false statement. Making my trap a cozy bot nest wasn't that easy. I had to submit the webpage to multiple directories which was long and boring, but all worth the effort.