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Introducing "Glitch Learning Center" - Physical Glitch Skill Notification System

So the title says it all, what I am building is a personal notification system for Glitch

Video of it in action
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I really enjoy glitch a lot but what I hated was how when I was away from my computer I had no way of checking if my skill was finished learning or how long left I had to learn this skill. Thanks to the super amazing fantastic API that the tinyspeak team put out, this is all possible and relatively simple to do.Using an arduino and a mobile LCD screen I was able to build this in a day and it is proving to be working great and very useful to me.

Current Features
-Green/Red LED to indicate learning status (green means you are learning, red means you aren't)
-Name of the skill you are currently learning
-Time left till the sill you are learning is complete

Planned Features
-List of possible skills you can learn next
-Selection of next skill
-Automatically switch to the next skill when the one you learned is finished
-Additional game info such as username, location, money and level.

If anyone has any more ideas for this project just let me know. Also if you want to build one yourself, I will open source the code and you can do it yourself. Its fairly easy these days. It costed me about $50 in parts, but I had them lying around anyways.

In the future I want to create a real rock like in the game and have all of the electronics inside so that all you can see are the LEDs and screen. 

Video of it in action

Posted 16 months ago by vcazan Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Nice one :-)
    Posted 16 months ago by Ghunti Subscriber! | Permalink
  • this is amazing.

    you really need to make that rock housing.

    if glitch gets popular enough, i'm pretty sure there are people out there who would want to buy these.
    Posted 16 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cool!

    I'm always amazed by you 'maker' types.
    Posted 16 months ago by shipwreck Subscriber! | Permalink
  • big ups! that's super nifty
    Posted 16 months ago by Gitchy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Awesome.
    Posted 16 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cool.
    Posted 16 months ago by Light Stridr Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Amazing what you techie peeps can do!  In my next life I will be a geek  :-)
    Posted 16 months ago by Stormy Weather Subscriber! | Permalink
  • :) so smart. :)
    Posted 16 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @stoot is probably trying to make a buy deal now :)
    Posted 16 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would so buy one of these.
    Posted 16 months ago by Kafrin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I really respect you for doing this, but for me it doesn't make sense to have another mobile device to check,... It would be smarter if you'd develop this as android/iphone/... app. ;) 
    Posted 16 months ago by FrozenJules Subscriber! | Permalink
  • am I missing something here? you can already do this, and more on any smart phone. I often check on, or change my skills when I'm out by using my iphone. I'm posting this message from my iphone too.
    Posted 16 months ago by kid4today Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For people that are confused why I am doing this and why I don't make a silly smartphone app.

    The whole point of this is to be able to check my status without having to login to a computer or have to type glitch.com on my iPhone. Using the status LEDs all I need to do is glance at it for a second and I know if I'm still learning.
    Posted 16 months ago by vcazan Subscriber! | Permalink