technabob » bell http://technabob.com/blog gadgets, gizmos, games, cool gadgets for geeks Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:41:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 every time a bell rings, a blog gets its hits http://technabob.com/blog/2007/12/06/every-time-a-bell-rings-a-blog-gets-its-hits/ http://technabob.com/blog/2007/12/06/every-time-a-bell-rings-a-blog-gets-its-hits/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:45:22 +0000 technabob http://technabob.com/blog/2007/12/06/every-time-a-bell-rings-a-blog-gets-its-hits/ 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.

Arduino Xmas Bell Hit Counter

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.

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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!

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]]> http://technabob.com/blog/2007/12/06/every-time-a-bell-rings-a-blog-gets-its-hits/feed/ 1 steven colbert explains cingular name change http://technabob.com/blog/2007/01/17/steven-colbert-explains-the-cingular-name-change/ http://technabob.com/blog/2007/01/17/steven-colbert-explains-the-cingular-name-change/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:42:19 +0000 technabob http://technabob.com/blog/2007/01/17/steven-colbert-explains-the-att-branding-changes/ 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.

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