Gosh, I'm bored!

Better reinstall Ubuntu on my computer.

(I don't know why I always do that when I'm bored, some sort of habit I think)

Boredom can lead to great things.

We had a bunch of Beagle Bone Blacks in our lab and I configured one as a MQTT device combined with some big red push buttons and LEDs just because I was bored waiting for a new project to start. A bit later someone decided to make another BBB MQTT device so that the first one wouldn't feel so lonely. When a button on the first one was pressed, a piezo buzzer started buzzing on the second one. Naturally you could only turn it off by pressing buttons on both device 1 and 2 simultaneously. The only problem was that they were 6 meters apart from each other.

A year later, we have a bunch of BBB MQTT devices around the office floor and nobody dears to touch them, but every now and then a visitor can't resist a big red button and a whole hell breaks loose. And it usually involves at least 3 persons to stop the mayhem...

IoT 2.0