Build status hardware

Question

We have been using Teamcity for some time for the Continous Integration in the project. Now we want to have some kind of hardware in the room that shows everyone that a build was broken. I've seen mentions to lava lamps and rabbits that can do this, but couldn't see any examples for Teamcity.
Does anyone have a good suggestion on what to buy and how to integrate with Teamcity?
Thanks

Answer 1

Teamcity has a buildbunny plugin for for integration with a Nabaztag (I wouldn't have recommended a Nabaztag some time ago but they are saved now).

alt text http://www.agimatec.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/nabaztag-speech.jpg

If you are a team of Linux geeks, you may prefer the tux droid plugin.

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Or maybe you could just use a computer display with the team-piazza plugin (for something "a la" mozilla, see http://isthetreegreen.com/)

alt text http://team-piazza.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/screenshot-success.png

For everything else (lava lamps, ambient orb, build wallboard, LCD monitor, etc), I guess you'll need some hacking. I'd like to see lava lamp support as this is my preferred extreme feedback device (it's funny to race against the wax to fix the build). So if you go this way, let me know :)