The Internet of Skull confirms the horrible truth: Emily’s Internet is out #IoT #InternetOfThings
Maker Emily Velasco is known for her unique projects and the Internet of Skull is no different:
I live in a neighborhood with an internet provider of so-so quality. When the service works, it works well, but it goes down more often than it seems like it should for the $75 a month I have to pay for it. The ISP is also notoriously bad at communicating, often only admitting to an outage after the outage has already been fixed.
If the internet goes out in the middle of the day and the weather is nice, I will just go outside for a while. Maybe I’ll ride my bike or maybe I’ll go to the park and read. But if the internet goes down at night or on a rainy day and I’m stuck inside, I find myself sitting around and waiting for the internet to come back on. Last time that happened, I sat there, frustrated and repeatedly refreshing a page in my browser like a rat pressing a lever and hoping for sugar water.
Then I had a thought. When the power goes out at my house, which also happens more often than it seems like it should, I can tell when the power comes back on because my microwave beeps. It’s such a simple cue. Why doesn’t something like that exist for my internet?
The project uses an Arduino Nano 33 IoT and some LEDs.
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