USB/Network indicator lamp

[Diakatarnis]

Hi There,

Bit of a strange on this and im not even sure if they exist. What im after is a light that can be attatched to a computer / network and will come on if a command is sent to it, for example if a camera is triggered or an email comes in etc just a light that can be triggered by a command from a simple piece of software.

Any ideas?

 

[RobH]

You will probably looking at an Arduino based solution if you want something cheap, they can be hooked up by Serial, USB, Ethernet and Bluetooth. It's not an out of the box solution though, you would need to build some basic electronics around it and program it. There are tons of tutorials about doing this sort of thing, it just depends if you have the motivation to go and build something or just want something that works out of the box.

This is an example of the type of things involved, there are much simpler examples: