Email Notification Using Phidgets
by
Carman Neustaedter

This project takes the metaphor of everyday postal mail to provide a physical delivery of e-mail. Its main apparatus consists of a nerf dart gun inside of a box made to look like a postal outlet mailbox. Each nerf disc bullet symbolizes a piece of email. For each new piece of mail received, a nerf disc is fired from within the outlet box. The email notifier uses a servo motor to change the horizontal direction of the nerf dart gun and a second servo motor to pull the trigger of the dart gun.

Documentation on the phidgets is available here.

1. Visual Summary
2. Documentation
3. Download a zip file containing a Visual Basic 6.0 project. This contains the source code for the ActiveX Controls.
4. Download the executable
. A dll file is needed to run the phidgets along with two sound files (New Mail and Error).
5. Download a zip file of the Installation Package

Submitted on April 1, 2001