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

[Ani Niow]

Square actually. It was leftover from the Chronicle building (where we
are). Matt Peterson was the one that brought it to NB I believe.


-Ani

On Dec 20, 2010, at 7:28 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil <gian.pablo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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