http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/12/ambient-penguin-video/ Raising The Eight Bar Thu, 10 May 2012 17:04:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/12/ambient-penguin-video/comment-page-1/#comment-242640 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:10:44 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=54#comment-242640 Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts. Any way I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon.

]]> http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/12/ambient-penguin-video/comment-page-1/#comment-4046 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:28:18 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=54#comment-4046 […] Eightbar has previously reported on the innovation project of a friend and colleague who is responsible for a wireless ambient penguin (see the a description and video). Using bi-colour LEDs, this ‘Wallace And Gromit’ inspired creation keeps track of our manager’s instant messaging status (off for online, green for active and red for away). […]

]]> http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/03/12/ambient-penguin-video/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:07:04 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=54#comment-66 […] In case you wondered what cool tricks you can teach a little penguin, check out the video Darren Shaw posted on the eightbar blog. They built an IM-status-aware penguin they use, to know when their manager’s around. I’m sure they only use this to track her down to discuss the last details of their PBCs. It’s March after all and my inbox is already flooded with reminders. […]

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