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> With the orb on their desk telling them at that their integration and unit tests were passing. Anymore info on this? Is it in house hardware?
by comrh 11y ago
> With the orb on their desk telling them at that their integration and unit tests were passing.
Anymore info on this? Is it in house hardware?
- thatoneguy 11y agoIIRC, it was built on a hacked up Ambient Orb http://ambientdevices.myshopify.com/products/stock-orb http://ambientdevices.myshopify.com/products/stock-orb
- shostack 11y agoWow, $150? Shocked there isn't a cheaper USB version that is more easily hackable. I mean, is it really more than color-changing LEDs in a plastic sphere?
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoIt's also a perpetual? subscription to a nationwide wireless network to obtain e.g. the latest stock prices.
- andor 11y agoblink(1) is a small USB light to give you glanceable notice of anything on your computer or the internet. blink(1) makes it easy to connect data sources in the cloud or on your computer to a full-color RGB LED so you can know what’s happening https://blink1.thingm.com/ https://blink1.thingm.com/
- shostack 11y agoThanks for the link--looks awesome, wish the form factor were a bit larger and not so directly attached to the computer. I'll bet I could create an extension cable for it and rip off the housing to make the LEDs allow more light through, then put it in a translucent plastic sphere.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoStarted with a project that used the Ambient Orb to show test status, they were expensive which led to a contest to make the cheapest one, basically an ATTiny with a software USB hid stack tied to an RGB LED. Henner Zeller won that contest and I think maybe 5000 gOrbs were built.
- travelton 11y agoI built something similar as a hack project... Closet dome light fixture turned upside down. Rip out the innards. Install RGB LED. Connect LED up to Arduino and pull information from an API. Adjust LED based on your conditions. I spent around $75, but that was years ago, probably far cheaper now.