[Noisebridge-discuss] noisetable - furniture that is also a computer

[Gian Pablo Villamil]

It was a donation from a .com of some kind, someone told me but I
forgot. It was in their lobby. Twitter maybe?

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Dr. Jesus <j at hug.gs> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Patrick Keys <citizenkeys at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Today I discovered noisetable.
>> Noisetable has been sitting over there, unplugged and unused, behind the
>> sofas by the microscope.
>> I thought it was just a table... then i discovered a power cable, then a
>> monitor cable, then its usb cable.
>> Then I plugged it in... the middle of the table has an embedded working
>> flatpanel.
>>
>> Turns out the table is a complete computer running ubuntu.
>> Computer's network name is even "noisetable".
>> Be sure to check it out the next time you're up at noisebridge.
>>
>> Who else knew about noisetable?
>
> A few months ago Alex Handy and I poked at it for a while and got it
> on the network.  For a while it was on IRC too, but I guess it fell
> off.
>
> We're not sure who built it, or why.
>
> The screen surface is a capacitive touchscreen which we weren't able
> to get working.  The hardware seems to work, but Alex said there was
> some problem with the X drivers.
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