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I made a bunch of updates to the previously mentioned “Weather Station”. I put it in quotes as it now shows us much more then the weather. I have added two more modules.

The first being the glowing RGB lamp in the upper left. It displays the amount of bandwidth the household has used in the last 24 hours. Since we are on a satellite connection, we are limited to 420mb a day. It displays 10 different colors in the rainbow, purple being almost no usage, up to red.. warning… download carefully.

The second is 7 lit ping pong balls. 6 colored balls (2 purple, 2 green and 2 blue) are stuffed with white leds, while the seventh is a white ball with a red led inside. These can all be controlled individually, but at the moment the blue balls alert me to new email in general. The green balls mean new email from my mom and the purple balls light up when I have new email from my sister. The red ball is when any website I am in charge of goes down.

In the photo the blue and the green look pretty close, and for some reason one of the purple balls is not lit up.

At this point I have used up all but one of the pins on the Arduino so unless I get a bit more fancy with wiring or some extra chips, I can’t add any more. The code is getting a little hairy and messy at this point, but if anyone wants me to post it, I can clean it up a little and let everyone at it.