I actually worked in this same office, can't say I collaborated on it. But i'll tell you how it was built.
CERN is a place where you can find plenty of tech garbage. In fact, there is a dedicated garbage container on each building, you can find non working computers, keyboards, even physics experiment stuff there.
It was summer and we were dying of heat working there. Productivity was zero. Given it's an open office AC was non-viable.
Here comes my friend Marcel, resourceful german smart guy -among the most interesting people i've met- guy decided to take the matter onto his hands and thought he could just take off the fan from old computers and join em up to create a huge one. So he went onto garbages around and handpicked the fans he needed -the thing should actually be called "Marcel Andre's Fans"- although it wouldn't be useful until next summer, the thing became a bonding after work experiment. Eventually Justinas, the guy you see in github as the author of PhantilatorOS joined the project and worked as Marcel's assistant, eventually taking over and creating PhantilatorOS.
The end result was damn powerful, you turned that thing on and you could really _feel_ the air breeze, and could actually graduate it by a knob.
Happy to say, the next summer, the problem was solved and the Phantilator went into use... By Andrius and me the two guys who didn't collaborate but enjoyed the benefits of those two guys Marcel and Justinas.
I'm pretty sure some of the software we built was thrown away. Happy to tell you the Phantilator is still there to aid for summer heat on that office.
Other funny note, we had an old computer where you ssh'ed and as the disk went out it turned off the light switch.
I actually worked in this same office, can't say I collaborated on it. But i'll tell you how it was built.
CERN is a place where you can find plenty of tech garbage. In fact, there is a dedicated garbage container on each building, you can find non working computers, keyboards, even physics experiment stuff there.
It was summer and we were dying of heat working there. Productivity was zero. Given it's an open office AC was non-viable.
Here comes my friend Marcel, resourceful german smart guy -among the most interesting people i've met- guy decided to take the matter onto his hands and thought he could just take off the fan from old computers and join em up to create a huge one. So he went onto garbages around and handpicked the fans he needed -the thing should actually be called "Marcel Andre's Fans"- although it wouldn't be useful until next summer, the thing became a bonding after work experiment. Eventually Justinas, the guy you see in github as the author of PhantilatorOS joined the project and worked as Marcel's assistant, eventually taking over and creating PhantilatorOS.
The end result was damn powerful, you turned that thing on and you could really _feel_ the air breeze, and could actually graduate it by a knob.
Happy to say, the next summer, the problem was solved and the Phantilator went into use... By Andrius and me the two guys who didn't collaborate but enjoyed the benefits of those two guys Marcel and Justinas.
I'm pretty sure some of the software we built was thrown away. Happy to tell you the Phantilator is still there to aid for summer heat on that office.
Other funny note, we had an old computer where you ssh'ed and as the disk went out it turned off the light switch.
I miss those CERN days. We had lots of fun.