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Physical Mailbox Modded to Send Push Notifications to iPhone [Video]

Physical Mailbox Modded to Send Push Notifications to iPhone [Video]

Posted January 20, 2011 at 3:20pm by
Matt Richardson from Make: Online has modded a physical mailbox to send push notifications to his iPhone. The exciting thing about his project is that it could be used in many different ways, not just for a mailbox.

Getting iPhone push notifications from objects in your physical world is possible using an Arduino with an Ethernet Shield, a PHP-enabled web server and an iPhone app called Prowl. In this video, I show how to set up a mailbox so that it pings your phone when snail mail is delivered, but it's very easy to adapt this project to whatever suits your needs.


Take a look below...

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Jake
Jake - January 20, 2011 at 6:24pm
WANT.
Aaron Wright
Aaron Wright - January 20, 2011 at 3:28pm
Cause everyone has a 10k pull-down resistor laying around the house. Sweet concept though, makes me want to run out and buy an Arduino with an Ethernet Shield.
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