Re:$30 Homebrew Automated Blinds Opener
by kayodelycaon on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:54AM
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My local IKEA has light boxes with a film sheet over them to make fake windows. They look surprisingly realistic.
yep, and for some reason they use them to sell blinds, but not the lightbox itself. I'm sure they'd sell like hotcakes.
What I'm surprised at is how rare fake windows/skylights are. I mean, such products/companies exist, but they seem to be relatively niche, and accordingly expensive (as in "call our sales team for pricing" expensive), not really ready for your usual DIY/domestic consumer.
I think what we really need is monitor/TV companies producing low-res, high lumen screens for this purpose, hopefully mass produced. I think Sony has produced a "passive" screen ("the Frame") , that is effectively a matt tv mean to display slow/static images to replace hanging pictures (and even stuffs the electronics in the wall to keep a low profile), but it's still a luxury niche.