cc/gdutton - Shuts the office door when the ambient noise level gets too high Could optionally interface with the window and a supply of used tea bags.
Corridor noise monitor
display mounted on the inside of an office glass wall, facing the corridor, with noise meter in the corridor; measures the current level of noise outside the room, and displays appropriate messages reflecting the consequent annoyance/distraction level inside the room. This might come in handy: Ciseco Pi-Lite: Make a Raspberry Pi trip light fantastic with 126 LEDs
Web stuff
Entropy mitigation
gdutton - archived access to links on teaching materials and public pages (where possible / legal / etc.) in the style of / relying upon archive.org.
Wanton Destruction
Nuke-box
iainr/gdutton - server which dbans every SATA drive plugged in to the front, emailing COs with the serial numbers of wiped drives [side-project: sufficiently visible signage to allow this to be implemented safely]
Display screens
OS
They would be more attractive to use if they ran an OS designed for touchscreen operation, e.g. iOS.
More info
Let's offer more info:
a quick summary of the weather
recent Informatics news, if there is any (and don't show this if there isn't)
What's on in the Forum - info from the Room Booking System, presumably.