Tidbyt hardware display device: a review

Re:Tidbyt hardware display device: a review by firephonestival on Sunday May 08, 2022 @04:02PM (#31307620)

Am I reading this correctly? It sounds like the product is an LED matrix which requires third-party cloud servers to update the display? That doesn't sound right.

Also, the author uses 2x 32x32 panels @$97 each as a price peg, but you can get a raw 64x32 panel from Adafruit (a quite expensive supplier) for $50.

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Re:Tidbyt hardware display device: a review by GekkePrutser on Sunday May 08, 2022 @04:15PM (#31307744)

I agree, and I would hardly call this 'a steal' as the article says.

But, for many people an Arduino is black magic even if they're quite skilled at programming. I know some of them. I can imagine this would appeal to those people.

I'm personally more into electronics too, kind of goes with growing up in the 80s when computers and electronics were just inextricably connected.

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Re:Tidbyt hardware display device: a review by willidiots on Sunday May 08, 2022 @04:28PM (#31307847)

It's an LED matrix which requires third party cloud servers to update the display. I own one. It's great.

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Re:Tidbyt hardware display device: a review by tosihakkeri on Sunday May 08, 2022 @07:23PM (#31308954)

> It's great

...until the server goes down

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Re:Tidbyt hardware display device: a review by jvanderbot on Sunday May 08, 2022 @05:51PM (#31308441)

Adafruit is leading the hobby industry towards their 99$ cloud platform for IoT devices.

It'll expand the audience immensely and probably be hugely profitable but I hate it.

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Re:Tidbyt hardware display device: a review by puzzlingcaptcha on Monday May 09, 2022 @03:41AM (#31311596)

Waveshare sells one for $25

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