I think I might go for the Arduino approach to satisfy my geekyness and
budget.

I really did like the panic board at:

http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/

<http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/>But the display
is at its cheapest 4000, which I dont think the boss would go for :P

Thanks for all your suggestions!

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Robbie Shepherd
<[email protected]>wrote:

> you could use an wifi/bluetooth-enabled arduino board, some LED's in combo
> with serproxy (lightweight xml socket server) to push data to the arduino
> and turn on some lights/make noises when something happened. Don't think it
> would be too hard.
>
> Robbie
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Jonathan Clarke <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I want the gummy bears in use at last.fm...
>>
>> http://blog.last.fm/2008/08/01/quality-control
>>
>> On 8 April 2010 11:57, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Interesting, but you may want to check if anyone is sensitive to
>> > strobe lights (epilepsy).
>> >
>> > Andrew
>> >
>> > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Glen Maddern <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> I think some historical (how many of last X builds have failed) is also
>> >> useful, but you need something like a build light or dedicated screen
>> that's
>> >> unavoidable.
>> >> I really like the look of http://integration.playframework.org/,
>> though I'm
>> >> not sure what it's backing on to.
>> >> I also worked somewhere that had a big-arse strobe light that somebody
>> >> manually brought to your desk and plugged in if you really screwed the
>> >> build. Let's just say that was the last time I checked in a syntax
>> error.
>> >> -glen.
>> >>
>> >> On 8 April 2010 10:25, Dave Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> A light's great for 1 build, but what if you have a bunch!  We use
>> >>> cradiator connected to TeamCity.
>> >>> Looks like this: http://twitpic.com/1dxwc9
>> >>> WARNING: runs on windows
>> >>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ian Leitch <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hey Keith,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> We @ Envato just got our build light up and running yesterday. We're
>> >>>> using a Delcom Red, Green, Yellow Visual Signal Indicator:
>> >>>> http://www.delcomproducts.com/productdetails.asp?productnum=904008
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I had to write a driver to get it working (the linux kernel driver
>> >>>> doesn't support generation II), you can grab that here:
>> >>>> http://github.com/ileitch/delcom_904008_driver
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The light is pretty basic but fun none the less. It can display red,
>> >>>> green and yellow all at the same time or individually. Though it's up
>> >>>> to you to program some funky light shows in Ruby :)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Cheers
>> >>>> Ian
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On 8 April 2010 09:50, Keith Pitt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>> > Hi everyone,
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Im currently working with some guys at the ThoughtWorks office in
>> >>>> > Melbourne and they've got this cool-ass light that goes green when
>> the
>> >>>> > build on the CI server passes and goes red when it fails horribly
>> (it
>> >>>> > also goes yellow during a build). Does anyone else use anything
>> >>>> > similar?
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > I found a post done by the guys as last.fm:
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > http://blog.last.fm/2008/08/01/quality-control
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > They use this USB controlled power board where you can send signals
>> to
>> >>>> > it to turn off/on connected devices. I tried to find such a device
>> in
>> >>>> > Australia but I havent found one yet.
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Also the last.fm posts shows that they have these status screens
>> all
>> >>>> > across their office - trac ticket status, last commit, load graphs
>> >>>> > etc. Does anyone know of any open source tools that would be used
>> for
>> >>>> > office status displays like that?
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Cheers,
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> > Keith
>> >>>> >
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