At the moment our office has a custom music player for a 'democratic' song queue that plays on the speakers. Has any one got any other cool ideas of things that could be built to make the office more productive or fun?
https://rradczewski.github.io/ymmv/2017/06/Where-we-are-goin...
(discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14582187)
Basically, I want deploying to be super boring under the hood, but SUPER AWESOME in the office.
Another idea I had was one of those TNT detonator devices, with the handle that you press downward, and it lights up a bunch of lights and then has a little LED animated explosion on the wall. Or the giant hammer thing where you slam a hammer into a thingy on the ground, and the weight goes flying up, and it has to hit the top in order for the deployment to begin.
Ya know what, let's just take all carnie games and turn them into deployment mechanisms. HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE??
Awesome.
...Someday...
Software is fun, but hardware is now "easy" -- There are plenty of hardware starter kits from places like adafruit and seed studio that you could drop into your office and let people have at it.
A few hundred bucks (and lets face it that isn't a lot if your doing software) can get you a lot of toys for people to play with and explore with.
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