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Originally Posted by Ooble
Does seem pretty cool. I was reading a little while ago that they were thinking of installing blue lights in trucks to trick drivers into thinking it's morning and stop them from falling asleep at the wheel.
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Heh. Yet the obvious solution of not making the truckers drive for so many hours eludes them, huh? Well, as my dad always says, common sense isn't.
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Originally Posted by Ooble
With that in mind, the pulsing thing would be annoying when I'm trying to sleep. ;-)
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Actually, you can set it to pulse or not pulse, as well as adjust the pulse rate. If it's not set to pulse, the light level reflects the current volume. However, this is a gadget that seems aimed more at Mac users than anyone else, and apparently, the device (at least the LED) is controllable through AppleScript or whatever it's called. Since I'm not a Mac user, I'll probably STFW to see if there are any similar resources for us Wintel people.
Failing that, it seems like a good opportunity to learn low-level USB programming. I mean, it's not going to get much simpler than a device like this, so it seems a good place to start.