ON AIR

[Ivan R. Judson]

I've often thought that interfacing a LED sign would be cool.  For many
things, like showing the last line of mud scrollback, having network
feedback, paging notification, etc.

here's what I want to do when there's time:

http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue62/2823.html

This is cheap ~$150, and linux'ey.  Think about instant messaging the room
you know people are in :-).

--Ivan

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
>Behalf Of Jeff Ramacher
>Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 7:31 PM
>To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>Subject: ON AIR
>
>
>Humor me...  I would like to install an "ON AIR" sign in our AG room,
>which could be manually turned on and off as needed.  I was
>thinking it would be really cool if this could be triggered
>automatically by vic or rat or both.
>
>I think there are two problems to solve.  First, interfacing the
>computer(s) to the sign.  This would be fun with a programmable LED
>marquee, but a simple on/off light with X10 controller would work too.
>
>Second, vic and rat would need to alert an external process each time
>the "transmit" button's state changes.  I guess this could be as simple
>as updating a status file, although there are probably more
>efficient ways.
>
>Does anyone know how hard it would be to add this functionality to
>vic and rat?  Or, has anyone already done this?
>
>Thanks :-)
>--
>Jeff Ramacher (jeffr at mhpcc.edu)                | (808) 879-5077, x264
>Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) | fax (808) 879-5018
>                                               | http://www.mhpcc.edu
>