What's your Favorite Extreme Feedback Device? [closed]

Answer 1

I like the system Last.fm uses. Along with antique analog devices to monitor server response time, loads of LCD displays, they also have red, yellow and green giant gummi bears to alert developers to broken builds. Makes me wish I had the time and money to set up similar stuff at work.

Answer 2

An idea I have is to buy one of those USB missile launchers and write a program that can aim it at the stations of known users...

Answer 3

Nothing beats the old nipple-crocodile-clip-rs232 combo.

Answer 4

I've given thoughts to using one of these

Think: You broke the build, so your keyboard's glowing red until you fix it.

Sadly, last I checked, the utilities to change the kb's color were Windows only, so I'll never buy one.

Answer 5

Well, we've used CruiseSaver, and threw it up on a huge wide-screen LCD monitor.

Edit:

Also, I was on a project where we put a Mr. Potatohead on the desk of the person who last broke the build. It stayed there until someone else broke it, which might be 5 minutes or 5 weeks...

Answer 6

CruiseControl.NET + CCTray + Growl + Prowl = iPhone Push Notifications of when and who broke the build.