local-guru.net http://www.local-guru.net/blog 40 http://www.local-guru.net//blog/2009/7/3/arduino-based-office-wtf-counter <p>As in any office, my co-workers and I experience several WTF-Situations during our working day. So we decided to implement a simple system to count the WTF's and use them as a metric for our working climate :-)</p> <p>we use an "emergency stop"-Button which is connected to an arduino. This arduino sends the string "WTF" on the serial line a little python scrip writes them to a file, another processing app count's the lines in the file and offers the result via http, which is read by a processing app for visualisation ...</p> <p><img src="http://www.local-guru.net/img/guru/wtf-button.jpg" alt="wtf-button" /></p> <p><img src="http://www.local-guru.net/img/guru/wtf-arduino.jpg" alt="wtf-arduino" /></p> 2009-07-03T08:37:00+02:00