> 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