one of the marks of exactly how hectic you are – or exactly how well your spam filters are set up – is exactly how numerous unread emails you have in your inbox. [trumpkin] over on Instructables published a excellent tutorial for making a wireless counter that screens the number of unread emails in your Gmail account.
[trumpkin] utilized a small as well as low-cost 419 MHz transmitter as well as receiver combo to make this job work. On his desktop, he wired up a USB to UART bridge connected to the transmitter. For the receiver side, an ATMega328 reads the data coming off the receiver as well as screens the number of unread emails on two seven-segment displays.
The wireless gadget runs off of two AA batteries as well as ought to offer sufficient power to keep the email screen running for a long time. much more than sufficient time for your inbox to fill up as well as for you to ended up being overwhelmed with the work you ought to be doing.