every time a bell rings, a blog gets its hits

filed under: hacks-mods | just plain fun

December 6th, 2007 post a comment (1) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob

Here’s a fun little holiday project for you mechanically-inclined folks out there. This strange looking contraption connects to your computer and rings a little bell every time a visitor hits your website.

With a few bucks worth of off the shelf parts, an Arduino board, a USB cable and a little code, you too can have one for your website, thanks to this detailed “how-to” article over on Tinkerlog.

While I think the idea is really clever, I think you’d end up throwing the thing against the wall if you have even a mildly popular website. But if you just have a personal blog, or only want to monitor a single page, it could be gratifying to hear the little bell ring every time a visitor pops by.

Ding!

[via MAKE]

December 6th, 2007 post a comment (1) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob

tags:

arduino, bell, blog, christmas, counter, hack, holiday, make, ring, servo, website, xmas

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