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The question was simple: what’s the temperature and humidity in my home office right now? Not the weather outside, not a city average — the actual conditions in the room where I spend most of my day. Opening a weather app for that felt wrong. A Raspberry Pi was already running on the shelf. A BME280 sensor costs around €10. This should have been a weekend project. It mostly was, except for the part where I assumed reading a temperature sensor meant reading a register. ...

The rule was simple: whoever breaks the CI build owes the team a coffee. It worked fine for a while. Then someone suggested we needed something with more immediate feedback. Something physical. Something that fires. A Dream Cheeky Thunder appeared on a desk shortly after. Four foam missiles, a USB cable, and a very clear team consensus: hook it to the cluster, wire it to the build pipeline, and let the CI decide who deserves a volley. ...