on Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:33:22PM -0800, Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dave Margolis wrote: > > > >On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, dylan wrote: > > > >>as ridiculous as this might sound -- i would like to put an LED in > >>the hand of a small figurine that lights up when i have email -- i > >>would be sending serial commands via shell scripts to a Basic Stamp > >>in order to toggle the LED..... i know pretty dorky... :) > > > >I don't think that sounds dorky - sounds like a cool idea (but maybe I'm a > >big dork). Please post how you did it (and maybe some pictures) if/when > >you get it working.
> Back in my undergrad days at RPI (a well-known nerdy engineering school > in NY), I knew someone who did something like this. He had mailbox flag > (taken off a authentic old school mailbox) attached to a stepper motor > attached to the side of his monitor. When he got new mail, the flag > would raise up. When he read it all, it would go back down. :) ...and his V1agra spam indicator was... ? ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Reject EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/
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