Inotifier
Why?
I've been involved into a graduation project, my role was developing the necessary electronics.
At the day of the graduation I've got two of these LED globes as a present for my work:
These nice globes changes from color from time to time.
There is only one problem with these things; the brightness isn't very well at daylight :(.
Another thing is how can I use these battery powered things the whole day. I fell the need to
do something with this. (Sorry FJ I couldn't resist)
The result
E-mail has become a important medium at work. But since I'm often away from my desk and working
a few meters from my desk, I can't see the little M$ envelope showing new mail, I also haven't the
ability to use sound.
Another often used medium is the telephone, but my problem is how do I know if it's my phone that
is ringing in a room with ten different phones.
I combined these problems with the globe problem resulting in this:
the electronics
the globe
new mail!
your phone is ringing!
How?
To know if new mail has been arrived, I've created a windows hook that looks at changes in
System notification area (systray), if a Outlook places an icon in the tray, my app sends a
message to the globe. If the icon has been removed, another message is send.
The phonelight is switched by an optocoupler as done by many other people.
