too expensive to justify the purchase, otherwise cool and seems to be rather good build quality (at least from videos).
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#32Good but expensive, also does not solve for people behind or side of you.
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#34Does this really beat a printed BUSY clipart taped to my screen? It's far from the first product I see like this and the question is always the same.
It does cover people interrupting you to ask “ok but how long will you be busy?” :) unless you want to replace your taped clip art every minute or so.
You can set your clipart to an end time rather than a count down. "Busy until 16:00"
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#35Why are the buttons are printed to be readable from the large sign side of the device and not the management side?
yes this seems a strange choice. The operator is clearly controlling it from the side with the small screen.
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#36I'm a bit dumbfounded by the price tag of $189. Am I wrong?
This seems like exactly the price I thought it would be. Maybe a bit cheaper to be honest.
Those generic "led pixel clock" tend to be about $50-$80 ish, and this looks like a 'nicer' (in some aspects) fancier, more niche version of that.
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#37Does this really beat a printed BUSY clipart taped to my screen? It's far from the first product I see like this and the question is always the same.
You can also have this update your status on Slack or whatever other relevant platforms support such updates.
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#38I'm a bit dumbfounded by the price tag of $189. Am I wrong?
Seems like quite a bit of hardware engineering went into the design. But if you are hacker and don't care too much about the aesthetics you could probably get 90% of the functionality with an ESP32, a GPIO extender, an LED array, an OLED display and a 3D printed case for like $30.
or maybe a repurposed eWaste phone/tablet, or at this price probably a new phone.
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#40Does this really beat a printed BUSY clipart taped to my screen? It's far from the first product I see like this and the question is always the same.
For some people, maybe. For most people not.
To me it looks like a very slick, hacker gadget built from a very enthusiastic person. Good finish and highly over-engineered. For me, as a user, it'd be too expensive, but my hacker soul could imagine building something like that too.
Nice product, but at that price point probably not for a big audience