Show HN: TheKnob – sound volume control knob made of concrete and RGB lights
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Re: Show HN: TheKnob – sound volume control knob made of concrete and RGB lights
#2Sounds like a nice DIY weekend project indeed!
Re: Show HN: TheKnob – sound volume control knob made of concrete and RGB lights
#3Sounds like a nice DIY weekend project indeed!
Yep. And even after weeks touching the concrete surface, it still feels awesome. Sometimes I wish there was a concrete mouse :D
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. And even after weeks touching the concrete surface, it still feels awesome. Sometimes I wish there was a concrete mouse :D
Will it be available for purchase?
I'm not sure yet.
We have several manually assembled samples now, but it isn't easy to produce a lot of them without a proper production line...
If you're interested in getting one of these samples you can email at brainhublab@gmail.com, we'll try to figure out how to send one to you.
Re: Show HN: TheKnob – sound volume control knob made of concrete and RGB lights
#6Really neat little project!
I would have loved to paid more attention but easily the most unusable website I've used in a while. Like seriously, it's awful if you scroll up an down a couple times because you're pushing URL changes. Then because everything animates it starts chugging a long, doing weird shit, like not going back. It's a single page it doesn't need to change the fucking URL or even worse animate those changes...
On the plus side, the website looks really nice even if it is unusable.
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#7As an aside: this is the first time I’ve seen scrolling the page implemented with history. This feels like an anti-pattern; I had to hit back 4 times to return to HN.
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#8... sigh ... the back button ... sites that mess with the back button should not be allowed on the internet.
Re: Show HN: TheKnob – sound volume control knob made of concrete and RGB lights
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Will it be available for purchase?
I'm not sure yet. We have several manually assembled samples now, but it isn't easy to produce a lot of them without a proper production line... If you're interested in getting one of these samples you can email at brainhublab@gmail.com, we'll try to figure out how to send one to you.
If you made your own board pcb and ordered them populated with everything but the rgb ring and switches, I bet you could get the soldering time down to 2 minutes or so per device, especially if you made custom jigs to hold everything in place. I could see a price point of $100 totally reasonable for this, especially if the user can easily swap knobs. Bulk manufacture of the concrete knobs should be easy, as long as you can make sure the molds are reusable. Seems totally marketable to me, why not throw it up on Kickstarter with a $50k goal and a $80 early bird price? If it doesn’t fund, who cares? You’ve already done the work to make the prototype.
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#10As an aside: this is the first time I’ve seen scrolling the page implemented with history. This feels like an anti-pattern; I had to hit back 4 times to return to HN.
I couldn't get Firefox Preview on mobile to get back to HN.