Project:Notification Board

Project maintained by Solexious, contact via IRC or charlesyarnold@gmail.com

Summary

This is the board that will hang in the space.

It will send visual and audible notifications to the space, and also publish notifications to the network, temperature, movement etc

Currently v0.2

Phases

• Phase 1: Allow messages to be displayed on the LED board from IRC.
• Phase 2: Add sounds when the message changes.
• Phase 3: Add strobe beacons.
• Phase 4: Daemon the arduino and allow connection via MQTT, add idle messages.
• Phase 5: Add temperature, light level and PIR sensors.
• Phase 6: Add i-wire, inc i-buttons.

Code

Arduino Code: [1]

Arduino Lib: [2]

IRC Script: [3]

Change Log

v0.2

• Include full ascii support
• Add initText
• Remove update speed delay

v0.1

• Initial proof of concept
• Limit to a-z A-Z and 0-9

Protocol Specification

Sending a message

Currently, messages are sent directly over serial.

They are upto 21 char's long, and can only be from regular ascii. The message is terminated with a line return.

This is a test msg\n

Feature Requests

• Dynamic font loading
• Individual pixel mapping