MIT's Bathroom Server 186
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Some of the undergrads wired Random Hall's (an undergraduate dorm) bathroom system up to the net so that you can visit http://bathroom.mit.edu and see which stalls on which floors are vacant, and if they're in use, how long whoever's been in there. It's a pretty good idea-- you can scout your stall from your dorm room, and watch it to make sure nobody's taken a s$#% there recently."
Google's cache... (Score:3, Informative)
bah (Score:1, Informative)
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:8EknSqPV1b
This is the text-only version, too.
-enneff
Re:Vanderbilt University aircraft waiting in line (Score:1, Informative)
The Active Bat location system from AT&T, Cambridge doesn't invade bathrooms but locates people down to 3cm.
http://www.uk.research.att.com/bat/
This bathroom sensor would certainly be useful for waiting in line on aircraft...
lyndsay williams
http://www.research.microsoft.com/users/lyn/
Re:Google's cache... (Score:3, Informative)
Just do:
finger @bathroom.mit.edu
It really is useful! (Score:1, Informative)
There was a bathroom server before this one that my friend Ben built. We only had about half the dorm's bathrooms wired though and no pretty graphics interface. But we also didn't worry about being
The laundry server is the coolest, still. It was down for a few weeks last year and I think that half the dorm actually stopped doing laundry.
And Mjolnir literally shakes the whole dorm when you turn it up. Good times.
Ol' Random Fogie
You mean like this... (Score:3, Informative)
The Switzerland Coke Machine [mit.edu]
Actually, it doesn't seem to be working now. Oh well.
Sodalord (Score:2, Informative)
Our Bathroom Server (Score:5, Informative)
I moved the IP address to a faster machine that performs proper caching of the generated images, etc, so this one should have absolutely no problem handling the load (assuming that our building's network can take it).
Don't forget to try out the finger interface, much preferred by all here in the dorm. "finger @bathroom.mit.edu" to see it.
One of these days we'll get around to putting up a page describing how the hardware and software works for both that and our friendly laundry server.
jim@jtan.com, for Random Nerds