please recommend an *easy* to setup device for visually indicating Build Status

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I\'m going to be doing a talk at Code Camp in Philly soon on Continuous Integration. I have no experience with lava lamps, ambient orbs, or whatever - but I think that would be

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What I have ended up with is a great, very easy to setup and use x10 solution. You can get the whole setup from agiletoys.com. These guys are great to work with and provide help if you need. But honestly it was very easy:

1) Buy their package. 2) Setup cctray. 3) Break a build and see the lights go off :)

Since it's x10, you don't need any wifi or network or subscription or anything. You will need a serial port. In my case I only had USB, so I used the USB-Serial converter from IOGear and it works just fine under Windows 2008 64bit (using their Vista 64 drivers you have to download).