Hack an "Easy" Button for Quick Slack Alerts. Working with headphones on usually means you’d rather not be bothered, but sometimes it means you’re just listening to something while you work. If you want to be available despite your cans being on, why not build your own alert button? Enter developer Nick Sypteras, who wanted to solve the problem of coworkers requesting his attention while his headphones were on. Working in a cubicle, he wrote, “There’s no way for a visitor to my desk to get my attention other than by waving their hand in my face, making loud noises behind me, etc.” So he broke out the soldering iron, a Staples Easy Button, and an Adafruit microcontroller.

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Subscribe and SAVE, give a gift subscription or get help with an existing subscription by clicking the links below each cover image. · Watch recent full episode of MTV shows on MTV.com. Working with headphones on usually means you’d rather not be bothered, but sometimes it means you’re just listening to something while you work. If you want to be.

Dear Lifehacker. I am condemned to being stuck in a small cubicle with low walls. I know Lifehacker …Read more Read. Sypteras wrote the code to send his Slack alerts in Micro. Python, a version of the programming language designed for microcontroller boards.

The Adafruit Feather HUZZAH microcontroller listens for a change in value based on whether the button was pressed. Using Slack’s API, he was able to send messages to a private channel he created specifically for his desk’s easy button. While the message just lets him know he’s got a visitor, you can get fancy with it and use Slack’s API to attach more info to your alerts.

Bollinger's 2. 00- Mile Electric Truck Is Fantastically Rugged And Basic. The world’s first electric truck isn’t anything fancy.

And that’s the whole point. The B1 “sports utility truck,” as Bollinger Motors founder Robert Bollinger called it at his unveiling party Thursday evening at the Manhattan Classic Cars Club, has an all- aluminum sharp, Jeep- looking exterior that can be converted to a halfback pickup truck.

Inside, there’s no bright screens or flashing displays; there are simple, analog radio dials and battery level indicators, and stores 9. Watch Amadeus Dailymotion. The 3. 60 horsepower EV has a 2. Bollinger describes the car as perfect for “rangers, builders and do- it- yourselfers”—a slightly different demographic than the usual Model X or Nissan Leaf consumers.“We went our own path with a back to the basics, American- made fully electric truck,” Karl Hacken, Bollinger lead engineer told Jalopnik. Four engineers, two designers, a welder, a painter, a communications officer and a “human resources” dog comprised the small team that built the car from the car from the ground up at an upstate New York development center. Though Bollinger celebrated the emotional reveal of his car Thursday night, the team is looking ahead to bringing the EV to mass market. The car is expected to cost $6.

Interested consumers can reserve a spot to the car on Bollinger’s website for free, and the company will begin taking $1,0.