Internet of Things projects. In today’s project, I’ll be taking the Raspberry Pi Zero, which is about a 10 or $15 single board computer, and connecting it with a servo and a button, to build this email notification display. I like the idea of not having an actual LCD screen, or an LED to let me know that my unread messages is ever increasing and I need to address ’em, and what this display does is it has a little flag on the top that slowly raises and lowers, based on how many unread emails there are. I’ll go over the code, the design of this, and how I built everything. It’s a really fun project. And it’s not necessarily about just building this, it’s about being able to connect the virtual world with the physical world, whether it be a button, a servo, incoming emails or texts, how can I react to a digital signal in a physical way? So, let’s get started.
2021-08-18