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AWS IoT Button
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure you can: http://www.borderlinx.com/AU/en/
Could not find it in search. Also looks like it is for Amazon Prime members only. Borderlinx chat person said: "You are welcome. We can ship the item without any issue." but also "Regarding the Amazon prime membership issue please be advised to check further with merchant." This is the product page: http://www.amazon.com/AWS-IoT-Button-Limited-Programmable/dp...
Ask http://priceusa.com.au - I'm fairly sure their agent (in Oregon) uses Prime. Probably a ToS violation, though.
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#43Our Puck (https://flair.co/products/puck) is sorta like this but with a small display. Instead of a generic button its a bit like a generic knob. So far positioned more as a heating and cooling device but I know I am excited to open it up to developers.
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#44"Yo"[1] hardware.
[1] - https://www.justyo.co/
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#45I'm glad they accepted that people were already hacking [1] their cheap Dash buttons and decided to roll with it. It's 4 times more expensive than their hackable Dash buttons ($20 vs $5), but apparently more powerful (and secure?) from the get-go. [1] For example, see all the entries: https://hackaday.com/tag/amazon-dash/
It's a button. Let's not use the same word, i. e. 'powerful', reserved for THE button.
I also think it's quite ugly. I could imagine some repurposed giant old fire alarm for, say, code deploys. But not something that's reminicent of made in china ±10 years ago.
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#46I really hope they haven't patented this. It doesn't seem hard to compete against it or build your own - an ESP8266 module costs about $6 and makes it super easy to hack your own "IoT button".
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#47I hacked one of these to power the nightlight in my kid's bedroom ( https://github.com/ecaron/hue-website-nightlights ). The downside is that the button barely lasts for 1000 presses = 90 days (all kids like pushing buttons). And it is heart breaking because its just a AAA battery that they decided to solder in place... I'm excited that this button launched. But $20 is too much for something without a swappable batte…
Wait, what? So, we are basically moving from this which could last decades to stuff which stops working after 1000 presses?
And people say we are not moving to planned obculence ( sorry, don't know the English word for it)
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#48I hacked one of these to power the nightlight in my kid's bedroom ( https://github.com/ecaron/hue-website-nightlights ). The downside is that the button barely lasts for 1000 presses = 90 days (all kids like pushing buttons). And it is heart breaking because its just a AAA battery that they decided to solder in place... I'm excited that this button launched. But $20 is too much for something without a swappable batte…
Wait, what? So, we are basically moving from this which could last decades to stuff which stops working after 1000 presses? And people say we are not moving to planned obculence ( sorry, don't know the English word for it)
The word is "obsolescence." (I wouldn't be able to say it any any other language!)
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#49Our Puck ( https://flair.co/products/puck ) is sorta like this but with a small display. Instead of a generic button its a bit like a generic knob. So far positioned more as a heating and cooling device but I know I am excited to open it up to developers.
At 3x the price (or 12x the price of a hacked button), it's not really in the same market as the dash button though
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is interesting, since from teardowns it looks like there's literally just a AAA battery in there: https://mpetroff.net/2015/05/amazon-dash-button-teardown/
Yup, but they decided to weld the contacts of the board to the battery. I'm guessing that they calculated it was cheaper (or more business savvy) to get users to replace the button every X months/years than to make the button in such a way that the battery is user replaceable and also indicates charge level.
Is it even safe to weld an alkaline battery? I don't know.
Why not just solder the contact? If it's soldered, you should be able to swap the battery with a soldering iron. Sure, heating the iron and cleaning it will take much more time than swapping a battery in a spring-loaded housing, but I've spent just as long opening battery compartments held shut with tiny stripped screws.