Missiles + Failed Builds = Bamboo Punisher
Wednesday, 22 December 2010 22:00
Question: What do missiles, failed builds and developers have in common?
Answer: Bamboo
As we quickly learned in the recent Ultimate Wallboard contest, there is no shortage of ways to notify your team of events that require immediate action. It was apparent that development teams wanted to put focus on failed builds and the developers who broke them.
Notifications came in different forms: build sirens, strings of lights, orbs...we thought the one below was creative.
Bamboo Punisher
Recently I came across an information radiator that provides a _different_ form of extreme feedback.
If a developer causes a build to fail a missile launcher conveniently creeps over to the right position, points, aims and fires. Don't worry, no one gets hurt.
The Bamboo Punisher setup includes:
- Atlassian Bamboo
- Linux machine to monitor the build
- USB Missile Launcher
To see how the Bamboo Punisher hooks into Bamboo check out more details here.
Check out this video of a webcam attached to the Missile Launcher:
Hooks into Bamboo
There are different ways to hook into Bamboo - and this is just one of them.
Recently a fellow Atlassian wrote up instructions on how to connect an Arduino Board to Bamboowith the use of a Bamboo plugin. Bamboo has more than 30 module types, allowing you to hook into almost every part of your build process.
