Blinkit Update: Use up to 3 USB sticks, Colour labels, and presets for your Favorite Coins
The Blinkit Software is updated with cool new features, for those new features it was necessary to make the interface expandable.
New Features:
"View More"
The Blinkit interface can now be expanded to show the newly added features
- Clickable Label, "View more" / "View less" toggles the interface size
Form1.vb is updated, link to the file on Github
Support for multiple sticks
Multiple USB sticks can now be used and set to Blink on specific Steem actions. The 2 newly added offer the same features as USB Stick 1, to blink on new Upvotes, Followers and Post.
- 3 USB sticks at the same time
- Sticks and there individual settings (Blink length, drive letter, Colour) can be saved and will be reloaded when the program start.
Blinkit interface: expanded view, revealing the other 2 USB sticks, and related settings
The following files are added to implement this functionality:
- blink2.bat (script to make the led blink on USB stick 2)
- upvotes2.bat (Look for new Upvotes and blink the LED on USB stick 2)
- followers2.bat (Look for new Followers and blink the LED on USB stick 2)
- posts2.bat (Look for new Posts and blink the LED on USB stick 3)
- blink3.bat (script to make the led blink on USB stick 3)
- upvotes3.bat (Look for new for new Upvotes and blink the LED on USB stick 3)
- followers3.bat (Look for new Followers and blink the LED on USB stick 3)
- posts3.bat (Look for new posts and blink the LED on USB stick 2)
Colour label for each USB stick
Each USB stick have there own drive letter, that makes them unique, but the sticks people use can also have a different colour LED, and the colour of the LED makes it easy to distinguish a USB stick in the interface. and in real life, therefore a setting is added where the user can select the LED color of his sticks.
- Pull down menu to select the color of your USB sticks's LED
- The Save button saves, and directly displays the colour underneath the blink button
- The color saved and set by the user gets loaded when the program is started.
- Sticks and there settings (Blink length, drive letter, Color) will be reloaded when the program start.
Code that changes the colour label according to the colour the user specified
The following file is updated to implement this functionality
Coin presets
It's now possible to save 2 of your favorite coins and get there latest price (from CoinMarketCap) displayed in the Blinkit Interface.
- Favorite coins can be entered in the text box.
- Save button updates the price and displays the related cryptocurrency icon.
- When the program starts it will reload the saved coin presets and display the updated price
- The refresh button updates all coin prices
(the process takes at this moment around 10 second to updated the prices of the coins (this needs further improvements)
Code added to get the latest coin price updates and save the user presetsThe following files are updated to implement this functionality
coinpreset1iconurl.bat (prepares the Coin price URL with coin preset1)
coinpreset2iconurl.bat (prepares the Coin price URL with coin preset2)
The following repositories are updated:
VB .net source files
Blinkit software
Blinkit v1.2 Expanded viewBlinkit is open source and free to download
Your input and suggestions are always welcome and will help to improve Blinkit, What features do you want to see integrated?
Do you have suggestions on improving the .bat scripts that look for new Votes, Followers, and Posts or help to improve the interface ?
What USB sticks do you have laying around, and does it have a status LED?
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Good article, the graphics help visualise the changes.
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This would probably be way cooler with hue lights.
Its on the todo/experiment list :), but not everyone have those kind of lights and there are a lot of different brands/protocols to implement/ and test.
USB Flash drives are everywhere and can be used with Blinkit to give them a new Crypto Purpose.
If people want they could also modify there USB sticks, (case mods, electronic mods etc)
:( I have hue lights, but my flash drives do not das blinken lights. I guess I'm in the forgotten space of the venn.
Be sure to check you drawers! In the last few weeks i found 2 other USB sticks i didn't know i had, one is a 32MB :o :) ! ... There is also a alternative, to use instead of a USB stick a (cheap) card reader that have a status light.
This one seems to have a good status light, and has a small form factor and is cheap:
"Adata microReader Ver.3"
http://www.adata.com/us/feature/116
All I have are the kingston data travelers with the aluminum enclosure. No lights.
What model of hue lights do you have ?
I have the philips hue white and color ambiance lights.
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How many time can I use it? Please, reply.
You can use it as many times as you want ... it's free!
Please, send me the instructions in simple english briefly. I shall be grateful to you.
The readme should get you up and running, if not, you can find me on Discord, and i will try to help.
https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/
https://discord.gg/RMXbqmG
Thank you very much.
easy to recall them yeh! makes sense
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great
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Thanks for your info.. :)
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