<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hmm.. Very pretty. Perhaps wishful thinking, but I was looking for something closer to $50 that didn’t require new invention. </div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I like what you came up with. Nice shopping list too. </div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Have you ever seen a Sonoff WiFi Switch ? Amazon has 6 of these for $65. </div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class="">
<span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Tadd / KA2DEW</span><br style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a href="mailto:tadd@mac.com" class="">tadd@mac.com</a></span><br style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Raleigh NC FM05pv</span><br style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><b style="font-size: 12px;" class="">“Packet networking over ham radio": </b><b style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><font color="#0056d6" class=""><a href="http://tarpn.net/t/packet_radio_networking.html" class="">http://tarpn.net/t/packet_radio_networking.html</a></font></b><br style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><b style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Local Raleigh ham radio info: </b><b style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><font color="#0056d6" class=""><a href="http://torborg.com/a" class="">http://torborg.com/a</a></font></b><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 11, 2018, at 2:52 PM, Brian Chamberlain <<a href="mailto:blchamberlain@gmail.com" class="">blchamberlain@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Hey Tadd,</div></div><div dir="auto" class="">If you’re talking 10 years ago time frame I’m guessing you’re referring to the AmbientOrb. It was a device from an MIT group/project that signaled the state of the weather, stock markets, etc... Here’s an article about that device.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4758931/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/new-technology-relies-human-visual-system/" class="">http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4758931/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/new-technology-relies-human-visual-system/</a></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">There have been many of these types of devices launched as products/kickstarters/DIY projects since then, in various incarnations. I’m sure you can find examples on <a href="http://Hackster.io" class="">Hackster.io</a>. Here’s one I built: <div class=""><a href="https://www.hackster.io/breakpointer/ambient-web-connected-color-orb-91b9fd" class="">https://www.hackster.io/breakpointer/ambient-web-connected-color-orb-91b9fd</a></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Also, here’s a more complete Rpi based tutorial: <div class=""><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/cheerlights-orb-a-node-red-tutorial/" class="">https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/cheerlights-orb-a-node-red-tutorial/</a></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">The neopixel from Adafruit is great for this type of thing. <div class=""><a href="https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixels-on-raspberry-pi/overview" class="">https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixels-on-raspberry-pi/overview</a></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Hope this helps.</div><div dir="auto" class="">Cheers!</div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 9:32 AM Tadd Torborg via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" class="">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Once upon a time, possibly 10 years ago, I remember a device which looked like a light fixture that sat on a desk. It lit up in color, after it found some token or cue on the Internet. You could use it to show a weather alert, or i a certain web page did or did not responded to pings. <div class="">I never bought one. Now I need it for a ham radio project. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I want to do is have a Raspberry PI that is doing ham radio stuff (TARPN network communications, in this case) and have a light, possibly a blinking LED, in the living room of my house, that would indicate a message has been received via the ham radio TARPN network. The Raspberry PI can have a file that is present or missing, or filled with some value or another, and the blinking light needs to use FTP or Telnet via WiFi to the Raspberry PI and query the file. Alternatively I could have the Raspberry PI issue a telnet message to turn the light on or off. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Something like this already exists. Does anybody know where to get one? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""> Tadd</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tadd / KA2DEW</div><div class=""><a href="http://tarpn.net/" target="_blank" class="">http://tarpn.net</a></div><div class="">Raleigh NC<br class=""><div class=""><br class="m_2636960322739545838Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="m_2636960322739545838Apple-interchange-newline">
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