watchserver
Hardware
keyboard led indicator
SHOW HN2017
87points
22comments
#523of 2,242 in 2017
Top 24%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.25.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
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Neat and fun idea
From 3 comments
This is very neat! I created an Erlang script that allows you to send messages by morse code to the keyboard like this: ``` ./remote_morse "HI,IAMSAM." ``` (Spaces don't appear…
samwilliams on HNBefore clicking I was secretly wishing it illuminated a pixel for each visitor on the new mac Touchbar. This is pretty cool too.
aleem on HNThis is quite fun. You can do something like this (here, playing click.wav for every request) quite simply: ``` ssh user@example.com tail -n0 -f /var/log/nginx/access.log | while…
jstanley on HN
Objections
Keyboard LEDs blink on every request, including JS and CSS, so one visit produces several blinks
From 2 comments
Cool, so does it blink for all http requests including js/css?
grimmdude on HNIt does, yes. So one visit via a web browser does result in multiple blinks in rapid succession.
lelandbatey on HN
Requests
Send arbitrary messages such as morse code through the lights
From 1 comment
This is very neat! I created an Erlang script that allows you to send messages by morse code to the keyboard like this: ``` ./remote_morse "HI,IAMSAM." ``` (Spaces don't appear…
samwilliams on HN
Questions
Does it keep the LED state after blinking finishes?
From 1 comment
Cool! It doesn't keep your current status of the leds after it finishes blinking, right?
GoToRO on HN
Alternatives named
Playing a click sound per request via nginx log tail
From 1 comment
This is quite fun. You can do something like this (here, playing click.wav for every request) quite simply: ``` ssh user@example.com tail -n0 -f /var/log/nginx/access.log | while…
jstanley on HN