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Sounds like the real problem is that you don't have enough toilets.
And then we moved to an office with multi-stall bathrooms and it wasn't necessary anymore.
[1] http://pee.mover.io -- still up because we gifted it to those left behind (though I don't know if it's still functional).
Sounds like the real problem is that you don't have enough toilets.
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My thoughts exactly. Kudos for geeking out on the problem, but that shouldn't be necessary.
On the other hand, building new bathrooms or expanding existing ones can be a long and expensive process, so improving the efficiency of existing resources can be a smart way to go.
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/75/67/3756777_737cd93...
These kind of projects are awesome. They may seem "pointless" or "a waste of time" to some PHB-types but they're a wonderful showcase of a great, true-hacker culture and I bet they do a ton for morale. I hope that any future startup I'm involved with has this sort of culture - it's a goal I'll aim for. Well done guys.
Raspberry Pi is great and easy to work with. I got it, I don't need 5 inane projects per day to remind me about it. I particularly like this one, but for me life is too short to waste time in useless projects.
Random Hall (a dorm at MIT) has/had a `bathroom server' that did exactly that and also a `laundry server' that tells you whether the laundry machines are busy. The bathroom server used to be at http://bathroom.mit.edu (seemingly offline now) and the laundry server is at http://laundry.mit.edu
I don't know the current status of the bathroom server, but when I was living in Random, certain bathrooms would be taken offline on Jewish days of rest (since activating the door switch could be considered prohibited work). So it's possible that the server is offline today for Passover.
Unless the operators meant it as a joke, this is absolutely ludicrous.
Random Hall (a dorm at MIT) has/had a `bathroom server' that did exactly that and also a `laundry server' that tells you whether the laundry machines are busy. The bathroom server used to be at http://bathroom.mit.edu (seemingly offline now) and the laundry server is at http://laundry.mit.edu
A commercial laundry server product: http://www.laundryview.com/lvs.php
This could tell me:
1. Which bathrooms are used and when?
2. Which bathrooms/stalls are being avoided by people?
3. Which bathrooms are out of toilet paper or paper towels?
Could literally save millions of dollars, improve location choices for bathrooms and have way fewer dirty bathrooms. It's the same point as those sensors in garbage bins/dumpsters.
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Raspberry Pi is great and easy to work with. I got it, I don't need 5 inane projects per day to remind me about it. I particularly like this one, but for me life is too short to waste time in useless projects.
If you're enjoying yourself and having fun, it's not a waste of time.
Anyway, doing stuff with a raspberry pi has no hacker merits IMHO. Anybody can connect stuff to a portable supercomputer and make it do things.
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I don't know the current status of the bathroom server, but when I was living in Random, certain bathrooms would be taken offline on Jewish days of rest (since activating the door switch could be considered prohibited work). So it's possible that the server is offline today for Passover.
> activating the door switch could be considered prohibited work Unless the operators meant it as a joke, this is absolutely ludicrous.
So basically, yellow would mean "You could, but unless you really need to, you probably don't want to" ;)
