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This (very basic) website is hosted on an alarm clock

93 points by middlegeek 16y ago

Timothee 16y ago
To be fair, this is not your grandpa's alarm clock, but a Chumpy. Though I'm sure that could be done too without too much trouble.
- bootload 16y ago
  "... To be fair, this is not your grandpa's alarm clock, but a Chumpy. ..." Chumby ~ http://www.chumby.com/pages/compare http://www.chumby.com/pages/compare the authors build page ~ http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2010/11/chumby-webserver-without-flash-drive.html http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2010/11/chumby-webserver... and there is an foss version CHB available ~ http://wiki.ladyada.net/chumbyhackerboard http://wiki.ladyada.net/chumbyhackerboard from Ada Industries
chrisbroadfoot 16y ago
This alarm clock runs on a web server!
- samwise 16y ago
  It's more like a web server that runs an alarm clock. The Chumby has the computing power of web servers 10 years ago.
  - chrisbroadfoot 16y ago
    Isn't that what I just said?
    - cabalamat 16y ago
      No
gregschlom 16y ago
Now, it would be very nice if the website displayed the actual time on the alarm clock. Or even better: what about streaming the video from a webcam pointing at the alarm clock? Talk about meta...
c4urself 16y ago
what happens to the site when the alarm goes off?
SimplePast 16y ago
The Chumpy is a full featured computer with Linux running on a 454 MHz ARM processor used as an alarm clock !
- seabee 16y ago
  My phone has a 1GHz ARM processor and is used as an alarm clock! Can't a big thing be a small thing too?
to 16y ago
thats like installing a webserver on an eeepc and saying its hosted on a picture frame...
_grrr 16y ago
A few years back (before the iPhone & Android were out) I hosted a website on my Nokia N82 phone. Nokia enabled this by routing requests to the server on your phone via a URL hosted at '<yourname>.mymobilesite.net' (now discontinued).
thijsterlouw 16y ago
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at kwf.dyndns.org:5821. well, I guess that was expected for a website that is hosted on an alarm clock :)
- aperiodic 16y ago
  It's working fine for me. Perhaps it just needed to be turned off and on again? :)
  - thechangelog 16y ago
    Or press Snooze.
  - phirephly 16y ago
    It's an issue with the internet connection. Local load tests show the actual server solid.
- Jencha 16y ago
  Corporate/home firewall may be blocking that?
latch 16y ago
Chumpy looks interesting (feel like I should have known about it before now)..but I find the choice between battery+cheaper vs stereo unfortunate. I'd consider a Chumpy One + Stereo (at a higher price)..but as-is, I feel the available options lacking.
- phirephly 16y ago
  It does have a stereo 1/8th inch jack on it, and neither set of speakers is really any good for music, so if you really care about audio quality, I would use external speakers. Stereo doesn't do that much when the speakers are 4" apart.
grigy 16y ago
Seems the alarm clock is turned off, because the website is down right now.
jws 16y ago
I wonder how badly the "Chumby" name hurts their organic search. Of the 18 comments currently on HN, discounting one explicit correction, we have 3 erroneous "Chumpy"s and 1 correct "Chumby". It's a shame all the useful names are trademarked and we have to resort to synthetic alphabetic tags for the rest of eternity.
- shadowfox 16y ago
  > It's a shame all the useful names are trademarked and we have to resort to synthetic alphabetic tags for the rest of eternity There is always the number line :P

93 points by middlegeek 16y ago

To be fair, this is not your grandpa's alarm clock, but a Chumpy. Though I'm sure that could be done too without too much trouble.

bootload 16y ago
"... To be fair, this is not your grandpa's alarm clock, but a Chumpy. ..." Chumby ~ http://www.chumby.com/pages/compare http://www.chumby.com/pages/compare the authors build page ~ http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2010/11/chumby-webserver-without-flash-drive.html http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2010/11/chumby-webserver... and there is an foss version CHB available ~ http://wiki.ladyada.net/chumbyhackerboard http://wiki.ladyada.net/chumbyhackerboard from Ada Industries

chrisbroadfoot 16y ago

This alarm clock runs on a web server!

samwise 16y ago
It's more like a web server that runs an alarm clock. The Chumby has the computing power of web servers 10 years ago.
- chrisbroadfoot 16y ago
  Isn't that what I just said?
  - cabalamat 16y ago
    No

gregschlom 16y ago

Now, it would be very nice if the website displayed the actual time on the alarm clock. Or even better: what about streaming the video from a webcam pointing at the alarm clock? Talk about meta...

c4urself 16y ago

what happens to the site when the alarm goes off?

SimplePast 16y ago

The Chumpy is a full featured computer with Linux running on a 454 MHz ARM processor used as an alarm clock !

seabee 16y ago
My phone has a 1GHz ARM processor and is used as an alarm clock! Can't a big thing be a small thing too?

to 16y ago

thats like installing a webserver on an eeepc and saying its hosted on a picture frame...

_grrr 16y ago

A few years back (before the iPhone & Android were out) I hosted a website on my Nokia N82 phone. Nokia enabled this by routing requests to the server on your phone via a URL hosted at '<yourname>.mymobilesite.net' (now discontinued).

thijsterlouw 16y ago

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at kwf.dyndns.org:5821. well, I guess that was expected for a website that is hosted on an alarm clock :)

aperiodic 16y ago
It's working fine for me. Perhaps it just needed to be turned off and on again? :)
- thechangelog 16y ago
  Or press Snooze.
- phirephly 16y ago
  It's an issue with the internet connection. Local load tests show the actual server solid.
Jencha 16y ago
Corporate/home firewall may be blocking that?

latch 16y ago

Chumpy looks interesting (feel like I should have known about it before now)..but I find the choice between battery+cheaper vs stereo unfortunate. I'd consider a Chumpy One + Stereo (at a higher price)..but as-is, I feel the available options lacking.

phirephly 16y ago
It does have a stereo 1/8th inch jack on it, and neither set of speakers is really any good for music, so if you really care about audio quality, I would use external speakers. Stereo doesn't do that much when the speakers are 4" apart.

grigy 16y ago

Seems the alarm clock is turned off, because the website is down right now.

jws 16y ago

I wonder how badly the "Chumby" name hurts their organic search. Of the 18 comments currently on HN, discounting one explicit correction, we have 3 erroneous "Chumpy"s and 1 correct "Chumby". It's a shame all the useful names are trademarked and we have to resort to synthetic alphabetic tags for the rest of eternity.

shadowfox 16y ago
> It's a shame all the useful names are trademarked and we have to resort to synthetic alphabetic tags for the rest of eternity There is always the number line :P