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by conesus 9y ago
Don't just count the one lamp. A home will have dozen of bulbs. This remote lets you control all of the bulbs/lamps at once. Use Turn Touch to set scenes or interactively cycle through "random" scenes until you get the l
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by conesus 9y ago
The pedestal (pictured on the site) is exactly that wall control. I built the pedestal because I wanted my remote to live somewhere. The pedestal holds the remote in place with 6 hidden magnets, leaving you free to pull the remote off the w
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by conesus 9y ago
You're absolutely right that wood is driving up the price. But if this does well enough in wood then I'll launch a plastic version in a year or two for $49.
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by conesus 9y ago
Eventually I'd like to build an Android app. NewsBlur has a native Android app, so I would just divert my Android developers attention to the Turn Touch app. I'm waiting to see if there's sufficient demand for the iOS and mac
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by conesus 9y ago
The remote connects to your iphone, iPad, or Mac. The phone/computer uses wifi or the net to talk to your devices. You can also use IFTTT to control hundreds of devices that aren't natively supported by Turn Touch. I have a Turn T
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by conesus 9y ago
Same company, new product. Plus the remote integrates with NewsBlur. I tend to only build productivity tools that use aggregation to get work done.
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by conesus 9y ago
Five years now. I was researching how to build buttons the day Google announced the Reader sunset (March 13, 2013). That pushed me back a bit as I had to get NewsBlur in shape. It’s a solo project so it took a while to prototype and launch
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by conesus 9y ago
Hey HN, I run NewsBlur and am launching my hardware project Turn Touch today. Launched last year as a Kickstarter campaign, it is now available for immediate shipping. Turn Touch is a beautiful wooden smart home remote and pedestal. It’s de
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Show HN: Turn Touch wooden smart home remote now shipping(turntouch.com)
110 points by conesus 9y ago|84 comments
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by conesus 9y ago
Yes you should do this. I’m about to hire somebody to work on the NewsBlur web issues while I attend grad school. I have a strong feeling that a lot more is about to happen once I start hiring other developers to build it further.
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by conesus 9y ago
Considering your reply and because I now have a lot of opinions to share, I think I might write a Joy of Software and Woodworking article. I feel like I can condense it down to how I figured out how to piece together the parts (cad, cam, cn
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by conesus 9y ago
Woodworking on a CNC is very much a software job. I built a wooden remote and for the most part it’s software with a woodshop component. I explored how I made it in detail in a series of blog posts if you’re interested. https://m
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by conesus 9y ago
I never publicly announced this but I loved Slashdot’s friend/foe system so much that I built it as a cross browser extension for Hacker News. It’s called Hacker Smacker and it’s on GitHub. https://github.com/samuelclay
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2017 Voice assistant trends on IFTTT(ifttt.com)
1 points by conesus 9y ago|1 comments
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by conesus 9y ago
That was the month they got rid of sharing and encouraged Reader users to share through Google+. It also inspired this tweet, which I remember fondly. https://twitter.com/jkottke/status/131434505947979776 Lo
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by conesus 10y ago
Hey HN - a couple years ago we built Pulse & Bloom and that got some good discussion going on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8285228 I wanted to share my experience building a large scale art installation, sho
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Show HN: Building Grove, interactive biofeedback trees you breathe into(ofbrooklyn.com)
47 points by conesus 10y ago|2 comments
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by conesus 10y ago
Hey HN - a couple years ago we built Pulse & Bloom and that got some good discussion going on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8285228 I wanted to share my experience building a large scale art installation, sho
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Building Grove – interactive trees that come alive to your breath at Burning Man(ofbrooklyn.com)
3 points by conesus 10y ago|1 comments
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by conesus 10y ago
I'm glad I put myself out there for feedback because it was your comment that caused me to see my campaign in a new perspective. I actually shot two videos. The founder interview at the end cost $4k because it was originally a longer v
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by conesus 10y ago
That's fascinating. I had heard feedback around the setup before, but I didn't realize it would be beneficial to show how quick it is to pair smart devices to the remote. I easily could have done that in an animated GIF. Secondly,
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by conesus 10y ago
Mentioned in this comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13878836 - and I will reiterate how important that one number is to optimize, because in order to do so it means optimizing other processes first, like ad mes
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by conesus 10y ago
Oh nice, I just bought it because it looks useful. I would have liked to see more photos of the oscilloscope hooked up to boards, esp. with clips on both the probe and ground pins. I plan to hook up probes to it and not have to hold it in m
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by conesus 10y ago
That morse code product is called Knocki and it raised $1.1M on Kickstarter a few months ago. I don't think it's only the UX of four buttons. You can use them as only four buttons as well without having to remember that each butto
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by conesus 10y ago
Ah-ha, we hit my area of expertise which is talking about how four buttons is all you need. It's a 16 button remote. Hold a button down to switch to that button's app, and each app has its own four buttons. Buttons can also perfor
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by conesus 10y ago
The only ads I bought were about $2k of Facebook ads, which converted into about $1.6k of pledges. Not a winning strategy. I hired a couple people with experience in FB ads to help me with the audience, but the CTR of 3-4% at $0.25 CPC did
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by conesus 10y ago
I got a healthy amount of press coverage, as you can see in this graphic: https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/015/617/477/4373b04fd29a977... I'm with you on pricing. It's hard to tell what would h
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by conesus 10y ago
I only bring these campaigns up to make a point about market size. A four button wood remote won't compete as well against a handheld screen or a single button. But again this is only about establishing that there is a market for this
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by conesus 10y ago
Ok, there's a chance I'll gain some valuable insight from posting this, which beats the cost of putting myself out there, so here goes... I just completed a 30 day hardware Kickstarter last week and spent $22k on the video ($18k f
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by conesus 10y ago
I mean come on. I'm asking friends to vote for my post. I wrote an enormous post that offers a guide for many people looking to build their own hardware. The least I could do is get it as widely seen as possible.

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