The Idea A while back I wanted something that made a noise to notify me of an event. The original plan was to replicate Andy Rubin’s gong doorbell. The large gong and mallet was a little bit out of my price range but a good idea is a good idea. I ordered one from Amazon and […]
In my first attempt at Physical Website Monitoring I used some 8 bit shift registers and tri-colour LEDs. This while fun, was hard work. Each green, red and blue along with the earth legs of the LED had to be soldered and wired up. That’s OK for a small project but I wanted to expand to 10+ […]
I wanted to make something to make monitoring more tangible. So I made a board to display the current status of this website chrishannam.co.uk as monitored from a number of remote “actors” provided by Server Density. Below is a snapshot of the monitoring setup from Server Density’s service page. The build was pretty basic and luckily I had […]
My standard setup is an Arduino connected to PC either a Raspberry Pi or a nearby PC that can serve as a host. I decided to relocate my server outside into the garage and I was concerned about how it would cope in the cold and sometimes dusty new environment. My first step was to […]
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