omg wtf bbq

Posted at 1:54 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by chris

anyone know a 3 letter acronym for notifier?

Posted at 2:33 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Zorink

Hey wait,

I’m not sure if Blairs notfier would work like is without my scripts.

Ah anyway I already submitted my notifier time ago, repeatedly, and got no response. This although I mentioned I’d written python scripts polling twitter,ICQ and email. No reply, no postr on hackaday, no nothing.

Then I went over to eeeuser.com forum, posted about it there, got nice response, blair chimed in, convinced me to use Dave’s USB hardware and firmware (instead of the serial device I had made initially) and initially was my idea to build it into an eeepc, too. Even designed a PCB with all smd parts to make it fit inside my eeePC (which has less space than blairs 901, mind you).

Have I done something bad to hackaday without realizing it, or why am I ignored, my work denied?

pheeeee……

http://eeegadgets.blogspot.com/2009/07/usb-mail-notifier-final-revision.html

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=69849&p=5

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbirdnotifier/files/

Can anyone tell me,
WHAT A HECK AM I PUBLiSHING OPEN SOURCE IF NOONE RECKONS MY AMOUNT OF WORK I PUT INTO IT; may it even be as small as a short “made possible through some software written by dennis” or sumthing..

But why publish open source at all if I get no credit?

Posted at 2:52 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Dennis

“diy avr usb rgb led cni (communication notification indicator)”?

Posted at 2:55 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Taehl

Hey!!

Why is my above comment awaiting moderation? Why am I treated differently?

Posted at 3:15 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Dennis

Thanks for including the project. Can I just point out that Dennis wrote the all important script that connects to Twitter, Thunderbird and Pidgin…

http://eeegadgets.blogspot.com/

For more details

Posted at 3:15 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Blair

ah ok it got deleted. nevermind.

Posted at 3:16 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Dennis

look here
http://bit.ly/pUqO9

and tell me: why do I get no credit at all? I wrote the python scripts that make things work like they do, and had the idea of making it a netbook hack. Ask blair.

Posted at 3:20 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Dennis

I even made a topic over at the eeeuser.com forums about this, http://bit.ly/ovSdm

but I obviously am disliked around here. sigh.
Even my comments get deleted if I include the url of my blog. I want back the internet of ten years ago!

Posted at 3:23 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Dennis

Its not that I want attention or claim this my sole work or anything, its just that I also included the name of the person I copied stuff from, everytime I did, to give the person his/her due credit.
And so I think its only fair if I demand the same for my work, when/if someone uses it to base his own, further developed idea upon it (which generally makes me happy).

C’mon, its even part of the GNU GPL, its nothing special to give credit. Blair gives me lots of credit on his site – I wonder how this hackaday entry ended up without a trace of it..

..makes you think doesn’t it?

Posted at 3:31 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Dennis

don’t be childish.
And also there is a link to your website, Didn’t you see it?

Posted at 3:34 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by SteveNtravis

DIY AVR USB RGB LED SUI (simple user interface?)

or how about too be extra confusing SPI (single pixel interface)

Posted at 3:56 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by chiefcrash

SPI is nice, I like it..

Posted at 4:04 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Dennis

dennis sure likes to whine, i’ll give him credit for that

Posted at 4:34 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by beaker

thanks man, now I feel better. I wish that you’ll soon spend many hours for something that is not acknowledged as your own work later, although you would maybe even deserve it. Now THAT was whining.

Posted at 4:36 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Dennis

@dennis,
Don’t stress. We generally write the stories based on the information supplied, mainly focusing on whomever did that specific project. If we had to follow the chain down the line for all contributors, even major ones, each article would get quite ridiculous fast. On reviewing the story it looks like you should have a mention, We’ll get Zach to add it in.

As far as your comments, that’s all automated. Your comment was probably blocked for some reason by the spam filter. I need to go in and fix some issues with this post, I”ll see if your comments are still waiting for approval.

Posted at 4:43 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by calebkraft

@dennis,
yup, multiple links caused it to get caught by the spam blocker. Your comment has been approved and you have been added to the post.

Keep submitting your hacks. Sometimes things just slip through the cracks.

Posted at 4:50 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Caleb Kraft

ok then, all cool over here. :)

Posted at 4:52 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Dennis

i cant find the source code for dave hillers usb stuff. i go to the google code page but the downloads section is empty?

Posted at 6:27 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by razorconcepts

i lol-ed at this page of comments :)

Posted at 8:23 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by andrew

DIY AVR USB RGB LED notifier
WTF OMG BBQ LOL ZOMG GAY!

Posted at 8:44 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by nope

@razorconcepts
try to get the svn trunk, or go to “source” and cut & paste the content of the files manually.

Posted at 11:21 pm on Jul 6th, 2009 by Dennis

diy avr usb rgb led ftw!

Posted at 1:27 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by davehillier

Name? SUN. Simple User Notification. And, y’know, it’s a light.

Posted at 2:18 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by nebulous

VBI – Visual Bit Indication

my 2 cents

Posted at 2:40 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by nimrod

Someone please give dennis his cookie and pat on the head so we can get on with the rest of our lives?

Posted at 3:35 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

dennis had a point, a fair one. He was rather vocal about it, as most would be. Dont be childish about someones wish to have their work recognised.

Posted at 4:41 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by James

Point taken.

Sorry Dennis. Glad you got your props.

Posted at 5:37 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

@dennis you are not a part of the inner circle. until then you will be ignored.

Much like submitting a story to slashdot.

Posted at 6:06 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by farthead

I get it. no more open source projects then..

Posted at 7:53 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by Dennis

Other simple (expensive?) solution ready for noobs?

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27062

Check the comments for mod instructions.

“I bought the one Dream Cheeky makes (it looks the same as this one) and controlling the 3 LEDs (RGB) that are inside is quite easy… they each have 64 levels of brightness and the colors mix quite nicely due. Use an USB sniffer application e.g. USBlyzer to get the commands…

My example:

Init:
…
hidDevice.Write(new byte[9] { 0×00, 0×1F, 0×01, 0×29, 0×00, 0xB8, 0×54, 0×2C, 0×03 });
hidDevice.Write(new byte[9] { 0×00, 0×00, 0×01, 0×29, 0×00, 0xB8, 0×54, 0×2C, 0×04 });
hidDevice.Write(new byte[9] { 0×00, 0×00, 0×00, 0×00, 0×00, 0×00, 0×54, 0×2C, 0×05 });
…

To change LED state:
…
hidDevice.Write(new byte[9] { 0×00, Byte.Parse(r), Byte.Parse(g), Byte.Parse(b), 0×00, 0×00, 0×54, 0×2C, 0×05 });
…

I used this library to do it:

http://hidlibrary.codeplex.com/ “

Posted at 7:53 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by Miikebass

@Dennis,
There have been many many good projects fall through the cracks on hackaday.

eg: http://belogic.com/uzebox/

I remember seeing an ear phone jack trimmed with a stanley knife (lamest hack ever) being posted a week after I (and presumably many others) had submitted the uzebox.

Go figure.

Posted at 8:41 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by mem.namefix

@Dennis — from my point of view (and I’ve submitted and had one of my projects reviewed a couple years back, so I do know the work level) the whining and multiple comments like that very much works against your credibility.

I’d assume the editors at Hackaday pick projects based on their opinion of those projects they have time to review on any given day. Surely some truly awesome hack-fu has been missed, and we can all site posts here that we personally think qualify only for the lame-o bucket —

HOWEVER: none of that means anyone’s hack is entitled to anything. If it doesn’t get picked up, it doesn’t get picked up. The End. If you act is if you’re entitled it can’t help. I know if I was an editor, my silent response to this kind of childish whining would be to set the bar much higher on those things you submit that I’d be likely to want to post about.

Posted at 8:59 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by Andrew Pollack

@dennis: You have a very valid point about not getting recognition, but lots of people will ignore that because you had several posts in quick succession, which made it seem like you were whining, coupled with the fact that many of your comments were referencing non-posted comments, which were later posted.

Posted at 9:10 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by St.Jimmy

thanks folks,

Since credibility is shot anyways here’s my thoughts once more: :)

@ st.jimmy: thats true, I wish it hadn’t turned that direction. But I guess thats just how I am.. slightly choleric person I guess.

@andrew: you miss my point entirely. I really like Blairs hack and the fact that hes on hackaday with it! I just dislike me doing the work and others getting the props for “twitter,pidgin,thunderbird”, thats all – which most definitely is NOT blairs fault if you look @his site, btw.

@mem.namefix: OK that uzebox really IS a cool mod! Be lucky they didn’t write about it as if it was entirely someone else’s work.. ;)

@JustBlair: sorry for the load of comments on my behalf! Your hack alone wouldn’t deserve such kind of bad publicity..

Posted at 11:30 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by Dennis

to get back on track:
I usually just call it “the notifier”.

Posted at 11:49 am on Jul 7th, 2009 by Dennis

This got covered by Engadget today…

Posted at 11:57 am on Jul 10th, 2009 by me