Dreams and Aspirations

While doing nothing on my day off, I saw Ryan Tucker tweet the following:

I had heard a lot of blabbering about the Arduino from Ryan and others, and decided to poke around Google a bit. One of my travels lead me to find this how to for making a "Physical GMail Notifier". Wondering over to SparkFun, I decided to price my very own, over-engineered notifier.

I figured I would splurge (crazy, I know) and get 2 BlinkMs ($12.95 each), plus the cost of the Arduino ($34.95 for the USB) would be about $65 with shipping (I know, I could just build my own LED crossfading sex, but maybe I'm getting over my NIH?). Kind of an expensive toy, but it would be cool (plus if I'm only using 2 lines for the BlinkMs, I've got room for more useless IO :) ), espically with my birthday coming up and such (Mom and Dad: you listening?).

Posted 16 Feb 2009