An Xtreme Doorbell
The daily morning standup is an important part of Xtreme Labs culture. It lets us exchange news and tips that we’ve discovered from the previous day. When
Xtreme Labs was all on one floor at our office, it was relatively easy to announce the start of standup. As the Labs has grown to encompass three floors in
our Toronto headquarters, it has become more difficult.
In the past, we’ve used a doorbell on each of the separate floors which we ring to denote that standup was about to start. Simple and effective, but lacking
on the “coolness factor”. To improve the system, we decided that we could create our own Linux powered doorbells that could play arbitrary MP3s to announce
the start of standup (definitely up’ing the “coolness factor”).
Read More – http://tech.xtremelabs.com/an-xtreme-doorbell/
http://xtremelabsinc.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/an-xtreme-doorbell/