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Ask HN: Who wants a LED that blinks every time a new HN article is posted?
Silly idea, but I noticed that the articles are not posted very frequently - perhaps every few seconds. For some reason it seems that it would be satisfying/funny to have an old school LED that blinks every time one is posted. Pointless of course.
- jansommer 4y agoMake it blink like insane when a particular url pattern is posted. A link to your blog for instance.
- tony-allan 4y agobuild it and post your results here! you could also have a led 7-segment display of your karma points
- brudgers 4y agoWould a binary display using 16 LED’s exponentially gamify Karma?
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- mihaigalos 4y agoYou could use blink(1) [1] and write some Bash/Python glue to query HN and drive it. [1] https://blink1.thingm.com https://blink1.thingm.com
- osigurdson 4y agoThis is probably more useful in general. It would be more satisfying as a small stand-alone desk ornament however (imo).
- marssaxman 4y agoThat's a funny idea, and I think it would be fun to create such a thing. Do I want one? Oh hell no! What a distraction. Remember when phones used to have little blinking message LEDs?