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I decided that I didn't like the sound of the terminal bell on my computer. Wouldn't it be nicer if it was an actual bell?
So, I got a Raspberry Pi, a servo motor and some lego and built a real terminal one.
I didn't want to spend long on it, so I used some example Python code from [0] and added a Web server so that I could trigger the bell remotely.
from flask import Flask
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
import time
# Create Flask app.
app = Flask(__name__)
# Start GPIO up.
servoPIN = 17
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setup(servoPIN, GPIO.OUT)
p = GPIO.PWM(servoPIN, 50) # GPIO 17 for PWM with 50Hz
p.start(2.5) # Initialization
@app.route("/ding")
def hello():
p.ChangeDutyCycle(7.5)
time.sleep(0.3)
p.ChangeDutyCycle(6.5)
time.sleep(0.6)
return "dong"
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
app.run(host = '0.0.0.0',port=5005)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
p.stop()
GPIO.cleanup()
With that in place, I could get the bell to ring using curl.
curl 192.168.0.52:5005/ding
My son and I then set to work building a lego case.
I use [1] to manage my terminal, so it was a simple case of using the built-in hook feature [2] to run the command when the bell rings, and to disable the bell sound on my mac:
set-hook -g alert-bell 'run-shell "curl 192.168.0.52:5005/ding"'
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Ah... much nicer.
You can see a video and hear it in action at [3]
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