> I'm wondering if any of you have any good examples of hardware hacking > projects that might be fun to put at work in our tech/network support I heard about a lava lamp that is triggered by a broken svn/cvs repository. The goal is to check in a fix and run the tests again before the wax melts and people notice. Nagios might also work in the other direction - to process your own hardware sensors. On Wednesday 29 October 2008 4:54:19 pm Tim Wilson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm wondering if any of you have any good examples of hardware hacking > projects that might be fun to put at work in our tech/network support > area. I'm thinking of things like lighting up various LEDs to indicate > network traffic or some other event. I'm especially interested in > repurposing old school analog meters. We have some guys who really > know their way around a soldering iron, and it seems like a great way > to have some fun at work. It looks like we'll be starting to use > nagios sometime soon, so that would provide lots of opportunities for > triggering different notifications. > > I'd love to hear some good stories about this stuff. > > -Tim