Website Doorbell

This doorbell rings when our shiny new website http://interaction.dundee.ac.uk gets a hit. Not our original idea - that came from interaction designer Brendan Dawes - we did it a little differently, using PHP, and an Arduino armed with an Asynclabs Wishield. And a butchered old telephone. But it makes a nice noise, and it's a more immediate, realtime, organic experience than checking over your webstats at the end of the day - you can always tell how busy your website is (or isn't). Mk2 to follow, more sources, more bells ;)
Ali Napier and Chris Martin, Digital Interaction Design/School of Computing
University of Dundee
Scotland, UK
twitter @digitalixd @ac12004 @alinapier @sspog

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Education

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• arduino
• physical
• computing
• interaction
• design
• brendan
• dawes
• ali
• napier
• chris
• martin