The LED will light up when a new e-mail comes... It's controlled bu LCD smartie which turns on a GPO when there is new mail... it's bright enough to see across the street... hehehehehe...
LED is a ultra bright blue... digikey part number P467-ND
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On 2002-01-28 18:21, specialk wrote:
Got to love blue
Beautiful color and cool mod! I like the idea of using the GPO to alert you when new mail arrives...
-special [k]
It's great... I walked into my room and it's this nice blue color E-mail time.. hehehe... As well, with LCDstats or LCD Smartie you can have the GPO activate a buzzer or lights if you case gets too hot... and so on and so on... the possibilities are limit less..
There will be a article coming up soon (from the fine people at icehardware.net)on how to make the low power GPOs High power, so you can power just about anything...
On 2002-01-29 00:06, Henry wrote:
There will be a article coming up soon (from the fine people at icehardware.net)on how to make the low power GPOs High power, so you can power just about anything...
I'm assuming using some NPN transistors or MOSFETs and if you want to drive REALLY high loads, use a transistor to switch on a relay (for AC appliances, etc.)... right?
I'm assuming using some NPN transistors or MOSFETs and if you want to drive REALLY high loads, use a transistor to switch on a relay (for AC appliances, etc.)... right?