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Expressive Pixels
- dgellow 6y agoThat’s very confusing. Is it a physical device, or a desktop application, or both?
- hrktb 6y ago> What is Microsoft Expressive Pixels? > Microsoft Expressive Pixels provides [...]. It empowers people to [...] Microsoft Expressive Pixels seeks to provide [...] A whole paragraph to never answer the question it sets up... In the end, it's an app: https://www.microsoft.com/store/r/9MTC56W1RXQH https://www.microsoft.com/store/r/9MTC56W1RXQH PS: and a framework open sourced somewhere to deal with what is produced by the app
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- swebs 6y agoSo it's a Timebox clone, but without the hardware and Windows only? Seems pretty useless. Why does any old thing from Microsoft always get upvoted here? Do they have have marketing bots or something? https://www.divoom.com/product/timebox-mini.html https://www.divoom.com/product/timebox-mini.html
- natcombs 6y agoThis is cool! Is there a similar product where I can get just the light panels + the ability to program them? Dont need the speakers
- wildrhythms 6y agoUnrelated, but why do I need a Microsoft account just to view this store page? Bizarre
- Tagbert 6y agoThat link probably is deeper than it needs to be. This is a top level link (though it looks like you may be offered a chance to read their newsletter!) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/expressive-pixels/9mtc56w1rxqh https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/expressive-pixels/9mtc56w1...
- remir 6y agoI wonder if there's a term for that kind of thing? I often notice this on website for enterprise software. There's so much buzzwords, corporate lingo and marketing masturbation that it's difficult to know what the product or even the business, actually do.
- KarimDaghari 6y ago> What is Microsoft Expressive Pixels? > Microsoft Expressive Pixels provides rich authoring capabilities for users to make static images and animations that can be shared on LED displays and other digital devices such as a PC. Basically an app that lets you draw in 8-bit/retro style.
- nkoren 6y agoHuh. 35+ years ago I enjoyed making animations like this, on my C-64 and a friend's Apple II, by writing very very long lists of POKEs and PEEKs. Funny to see thyis style coming back around again.
- surfingdino 6y agoWhat you get when corporations demand outcomes based on learnings observed while watching maker communities from the tops of corporate HQs. Still, not as baffling as the Multipoint SDK. LaMetric have done it better before. If you want a non-Windows solution Open Source alternatives exist.
- StevePerkins 6y agoI watched the two-minute introduction video, and learned that it's "an inclusive app" that's all about diversity. But I came away with no real idea of what it actually is.