Anyone ever heard of an Infoglobe?

[Zuke]

It's one of these things:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/action/large/2102ad7.jpg

It's meant for caller ID and can be programmed with a set phrase to display when no calls are coming. I was always curious about hacking one to show my CPU usage, temps, volatages, ect. Think it's possible? Anyone ever heard of it?

[OvRiDe]

That would be very cool.. I havent heard of anyone hacking one.. but as far as I can tell if it has a display someone out there can hack it.. :)

[Zeus]

any progress on this? I have one of those too and I am very interested to know if you found a way to do this.

[crazybillybob]

Ran into this on the net....
here are AndyM's doc's
http://linux-hacker.net/InfoGlobe
and some sample source code for a pic16f84
http://linux-hacker.net/InfoGlobe/Infoglobe_hack.asm
http://linux-hacker.net/InfoGlobe/IG_effects_browser.asm

goodluck,
crazybillybob

Oh, try and google it there is more out there!

[Zuke]

Thanks! I'm not a Linux user, but it provides a good start!

[Redbeard]

I like it... I kinda thought something along those lines but never really followed up on that tangent...

[crenn]

Hmmm.... I can just imagine Crimson_Sky putting one of these into his mod..... but it only has 35 text characters.... which mean you can't show a percentage unless you showed the word Percent.....

[Zuke]

Very true. And I'm not so worried about the 35 char limit, as you can just have it scroll the message.

I'm reading up on it alot, and it seems a few people have figured out how to hack the default messages it says to say anything you want, but nothing to give it real-time data from a PC.

[tybrenis]

These are very easy to build. Google "propeller clock", and you'll find out how to build your very own. Here is a link explaining simply how it's done:

http://www.bobblick.com/techref/projects/propclock/propclock.html


It'd be fairly easy to do and program, my friend's dad has done exactly what you want to do.