bell on Technabob...

For some reason, I always associate email with “You’ve Got Mail,”… that old nineties movie that starred Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. Their romance was totally based on their virtual and online conversations, and I always remember that little old ding (or was it more like a chime sounding out?)

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…

Watch and learn…

Funny thing is… I’m pretty sure I’ve been a customer of all of these companies at one point or another.
[via Digg]…