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Is it legal to sell a device with radio in the US without FCC certification? In the EU it's illegal to sell without external certification if the product is a medical device, is made for children or contains a radio. Certification will typically cost you $5,000-$15,000 depending on which lab you use.

Modules like ESP32-WROOM, Seeed XIAO ESP32C3, and ES2810AA2 comes certified, re-certifications should not be needed(IANAL).

I believe that to be true (at least for the European market), however you do need to have the manufacturers documentation on it!

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I'd love something like that. But I would want that to have tactice clicks, like mouse scrolling wheels, so that it can also be used for paging in book readers. Which speaking of, there is a niche there for a product that I think is actually realistically doable at small scale. On Android, most book readers can be configured to flip pages with volume up/down, which is extremely convenient for one-handed reading. No s…

Afaik TikTok and the Kindle app both respondto media back/next keys, which is how the TikTok Bluetooth remotes work.

I would assume it'd also work with literal Page Up/Down keys, however that is exposed for keyboards when using Bluetooth. The important part is having that on the phone itself, placed such that when you hold it with one hand, the thumb is conveniently placed on the page down key, so that one only needs to push slightly to flip to the next page. That's what makes Android phones so convenient for reading over long periods of time compared to iPhones, where you have to lift the thumb and tap the screen for every page.

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I really like imagining how people of the future (like hundreds of years in the future) looking at our current culture and technology will try to interpret things that I seem to get without thinking. Like, if they dug up my home and found this thing sitting in a drawer what kind of wild theories would they come up before they eventually realized, "This human valued something that actually did less than nothing."

I mean, usually when archeologists don't understand a device they just end up chucking it in the "religious device" bin. Not that would exactly be wrong here, but you know.

This honestly made me chuckle even more, thanks for that.

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Why is this a knob and not a scroll wheel.

Protip, there's $10 "VR" controllers thats basically an analogue stick with a ring finger hole that does this already, in more ergonic way.

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