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well me and my bro were bored so we made a little program that makes a led connected to the serial port blink whenever you get a message



ok connect the led to an comm port(if you have problems getting it working and you have 2 comm ports try them both !)
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\ o o o o o /
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sounds kewl, just one problem - where u gets the LED an old or sumthin

sounds funny

It's not that hard to do really :/

You need:
* Programming skills
* LED (and maybe resistors)
* Serial cable

Basically it works like this:

You connect the anode leg of the LED up to a data pin on the serial lead/port and connect the cathode (short leg) of the LED to one of the grounds.

Then you just write up some software in whichever programming language you know that accesses this serial port and sends out the corresponding data signal which will turn that data bit on (basically switches +5 through the pin).

Nice program. I'll test it when I go home (now at the university I haven't got any led ) Is the source code aviable??

Once you got this...
take it a step further (if you know electronics):
Create a small box with a led, buzzer and a RF-receiver. On the PC-end put a RF-sender (use the USB-ports instead, this would be nicer and not hard to program either).
Now you've got a home-made-messenger beeper

lmao, this is funny

Why Why why wots wrong with using the flashing text box on screen

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Originally posted by martinsounds kewl, just one problem - where u gets the LED an old or sumthin

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You get the LED's in the electro-shop

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Originally posted by wabzWhy Why why wots wrong with using the flashing text box on screen

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Errrr...... nothing??
(unless considering making my MSN beeper that you can take with you wherever you go -in your home, like the bathroom -)

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by martinsounds kewl, just one problem - where u gets the LED an old or sumthin

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You get the LED's in the electro-shop

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would one from an old work
me to cheap to buy one but gots like three old computers