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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by rpgraham84 »

wepple wrote: post #92
rpgraham84 wrote: post #5

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“Enable various forms of cybercrime” seems like a stretch. If flipper does, so does Nmap and metasploit and Linux and soldering irons.

They all do too to varying degrees. You can say "X enables cybercrime" and "Y enables more cybercrime than X" and both could be true for any given X and Y.

For instance, someone buying a flipper is far more likely to do something illegal with it than someone buying a soldering iron. Both could be used only for legal purposes too, of course.

For every news story you can find of someone doing a legal thing with a flipper I can find you at least 10 stories of someone doing something illegal with it. Same for metasploit, nmap is borderline, and soldering irons not so much.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by shadowpho »

echoangle wrote: post #60
puzzlingcaptcha wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Can confirm, here’s a small BOM: 8x 8x8 WS2812 Matrix $2 each = $16 ESP32 $3 1x some acrylic to laser-cut a case in a makerspace $5 So $24 total. The screen would be much larger than the Busy Bar version, which could be a pro or a con, depending on what you want. If you need the smaller back screen (I don’t see the use because I would control it from a computer anyways), that would add another $3 or so. The buttons a…

no, that's not how much that costs at all lol

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by poincaredisk »

zhovner wrote: post #111
VoxPelli wrote: post #93

Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their device? It’s not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/ , neither on https://flipperzero.one/ or their Instagram? They have been plagued with peopling scamming people in their name before

Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret. Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.

Side note to people reading this: in general, when suspecting a scam, don't blindly trust anyone who says "I'm ... and I confirm this is OK". This may be the same very person who you're suspecting of original scam ;). Not a theory, I have cases looks this every other week in my dayjob.

In this case I believe the post is legit.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by SoftTalker »

0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #49
Buttons840 wrote: post #27

I might buy this to use as follows. I want a work-time tracker that lights a bright LED every 5 minutes or so, and as long as I'm there and working I smash a button and the light goes off for another 5 minutes. Some algorithm tracks the times I have hit the button and displays how long I have been working on said task. I'm picturing something fairly cheap, like a stop watch or 3 button kitchen timer. A LED, a few but…

I assume lawyers have some mechanism like this already. Law firms can require staff to allocate every 6-8 minutes of their day. Which sounds terrible and likely to be wildly inaccurate as people cannot be bothered to invest that much overhead into their job.

If your pay depends on it, you magically become very good at it.

I hate time tracking and time sheets and all of that but at any job I had where I would not get paid without it, it got done.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by thih9 »

It’s very pretty; but it’s also a little sad - that there could be demand for a big red flashing IRL “busy” indicator.

If I’m busy and if it happens so often that I can reliably buy a device like this, I would instead prefer to adjust my work environment to not be distracting, and to inform people that they should contact me at some other time.

I guess this may not always be an option.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by parhamn »

zhovner wrote: post #111
VoxPelli wrote: post #93

Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their device? It’s not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/ , neither on https://flipperzero.one/ or their Instagram? They have been plagued with peopling scamming people in their name before

Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret. Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.

Put a CO2 + temp/humidity sensor in there and it's a no-brainer. The sensors could be nice to hack on too.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by tofof »

The display is a resolution of 72x16, or 1152 px. I counted; there's a couple of frames as the first "busy" mention displays that the splashing animation lights the entire panel.

For comparison, the Ulanzi TC001 mentioned throughout this thread is 32x8, for 256 pixels.

I think if one was wanting to build something like this for themselves that just using a 7" ips display intended for rpi would work as well. With 1024x600 resolution you could draw the chunky pixels if you wanted that aesthetic, and those can be had for like $28.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by creatonez »

poincaredisk wrote: post #173
zhovner wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret. Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.

Side note to people reading this: in general, when suspecting a scam, don't blindly trust anyone who says "I'm ... and I confirm this is OK". This may be the same very person who you're suspecting of original scam ;). Not a theory, I have cases looks this every other week in my dayjob. In this case I believe the post is legit.

It might ring better for the cypherpunks here that zhovner has verified their HN account ownership with their keybase GPG key, which can only be done by editing an account's profile description to include a specific signature (or by defacing HN / breaching the account). And the same key is also used to prove ownership of their Github account and website.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by blitzar »

thih9 wrote: post #176

It’s very pretty; but it’s also a little sad - that there could be demand for a big red flashing IRL “busy” indicator. If I’m busy and if it happens so often that I can reliably buy a device like this, I would instead prefer to adjust my work environment to not be distracting, and to inform people that they should contact me at some other time. I guess this may not always be an option.

> sad - that there could be demand for a big red flashing IRL “busy”

Busy is the virture most people want to signal most of the time. Next time someone ask how things are tell people you are not busy, its elicits a similar response to telling people your distant uncle died.

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