On 9 May 2015 13:11:39 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

On Sat, 09 May 2015 13:19:59 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

On 08/05/2015 18:16, MM wrote:
Here is the finished project:
http://www.littletyke.myzen.co.uk/lt...box_alert.html

Next, the "internet of things" connection, and a smartphone app to popup
with a "you've got mail" announcement in true Joanna Lumley voice ;-)

Start off with an ESP8266 and an Arduino...

I can't get my 'ead around all these new, small computers. There's the
Basic Stamp (hardly new any more), the BeagleBone, the Raspberry Pi,
the Arduino, and there are probably several others as well. I got
given a Raspberry Pi Model B for Christmas 2013 and it's obsolete
already.

MM