A bot to let you know when you have an IRC message waiting. Run this script on a Raspberry Pi with LedBorg installed. Requires the cinch gem.
When a user mentions your nick, one of the 26 possible LedBorg colors will be chosen and your LedBorg will light up. It will remain lit until you send a message in that channel.
Just install the cinch gem and download the script.
gem install cinch
wget http://github.com/holdtotherod/IRCPiLedOn/master/irc_piled_on.rb
Run the script. Usage:
./irc_piled_on.rb <nick_to_notify> <server_url> <channel> <channel_password(optional)>
Example:
./irc_piled_on.rb stephenl irc.freenode.net canvas-lms