Innovation Ideas

(aka the Wacky Wiki)

Noise

sound-monitoring door closer

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.

Visualisations

Logstalgia

Configuration of http://code.google.com/p/logstalgia/ for DICE web