This (very basic) website is hosted on an alarm clock

[middlegeek]

http://kwf.dyndns.org:5821/

[_grrr]

A few years back (before the iPhone & Android were out) I hosted a website on my Nokia N82 phone. Nokia enabled this by routing requests to the server on your phone via a URL hosted at '<yourname>.mymobilesite.net' (now discontinued).

[Timothee]

To be fair, this is not your grandpa's alarm clock, but a Chumpy. Though I'm sure that could be done too without too much trouble.

[bootload → Timothee]

"... To be fair, this is not your grandpa's alarm clock, but a Chumpy. ..."

Chumby ~ http://www.chumby.com/pages/compare

the authors build page ~ http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2010/11/chumby-webserver... and there is an foss version CHB available ~ http://wiki.ladyada.net/chumbyhackerboard from Ada Industries

[gregschlom]

Now, it would be very nice if the website displayed the actual time on the alarm clock.

Or even better: what about streaming the video from a webcam pointing at the alarm clock?

Talk about meta...

[jws]

I wonder how badly the "Chumby" name hurts their organic search.

Of the 18 comments currently on HN, discounting one explicit correction, we have 3 erroneous "Chumpy"s and 1 correct "Chumby".

It's a shame all the useful names are trademarked and we have to resort to synthetic alphabetic tags for the rest of eternity.

[shadowfox → jws]

> It's a shame all the useful names are trademarked and we have to resort to synthetic alphabetic tags for the rest of eternity

There is always the number line :P

[chrisbroadfoot]

This alarm clock runs on a web server!

[samwise → chrisbroadfoot]

It's more like a web server that runs an alarm clock. The Chumby has the computing power of web servers 10 years ago.

[chrisbroadfoot → samwise]

Isn't that what I just said?

[cabalamat → chrisbroadfoot]

No

[SimplePast]

The Chumpy is a full featured computer with Linux running on a 454 MHz ARM processor used as an alarm clock !

[seabee → SimplePast]

My phone has a 1GHz ARM processor and is used as an alarm clock! Can't a big thing be a small thing too?

[thijsterlouw]

  Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at kwf.dyndns.org:5821.

well, I guess that was expected for a website that is hosted on an alarm clock :)

[aperiodic → thijsterlouw]

It's working fine for me. Perhaps it just needed to be turned off and on again? :)

[thechangelog → aperiodic]

Or press Snooze.

[phirephly → aperiodic]

It's an issue with the internet connection. Local load tests show the actual server solid.

[Jencha → thijsterlouw]

Corporate/home firewall may be blocking that?

[latch]

Chumpy looks interesting (feel like I should have known about it before now)..but I find the choice between battery+cheaper vs stereo unfortunate. I'd consider a Chumpy One + Stereo (at a higher price)..but as-is, I feel the available options lacking.

[phirephly → latch]

It does have a stereo 1/8th inch jack on it, and neither set of speakers is really any good for music, so if you really care about audio quality, I would use external speakers. Stereo doesn't do that much when the speakers are 4" apart.

[grigy]

Seems the alarm clock is turned off, because the website is down right now.

[c4urself]

what happens to the site when the alarm goes off?

[to]

thats like installing a webserver on an eeepc and saying its hosted on a picture frame...