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Re:Show HN: How to make your own glowing notification cube by fweespeech on Friday May 08, 2015 @12:22PM (#9512542)
> After creating the first prototype I realized a number of things. While it was cool there wasn’t enough utility to justify creating another one. The only way I could have figured that out is by making and using this prototype for several months.

I did something similar with LEDs [not a cube, just a board with lights] to alert on various things before just having the Pi power an old wall mounted LCD I wasn't using anymore + a dashboard.

It is one of those ideas that is awesome in theory but its really hard to justify the time/effort beyond "FUN!"

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Re:Show HN: How to make your own glowing notification cube by achariam on Friday May 08, 2015 @12:50PM (#9512705)
Exactly, I agree wholeheartedly. There is a limited amount of granularity you can get with using colors. Incidentally, I'm also messing around with tiny displays now. - https://www.dropbox.com/s/r5993ylrqmjoegn/screentest.jpg?dl=...
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Re:Show HN: How to make your own glowing notification cube by comrh on Friday May 08, 2015 @03:54PM (#9513769)
Very cool. What I've been really searching for is a large e-ink display. I'd love to do a RaspPi powered "cork board".
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Re:Show HN: How to make your own glowing notification cube by achariam on Friday May 08, 2015 @04:00PM (#9513806)
Oh nice, not sure how large you're thinking but if it's under 6 inches you could probably get one decently cheap from Alibaba(the Chinese Amazon). I think the larger displays (10 inches+) were only manufactured for special use cases like the Kindle DX hence the limited availability. Cool idea though!
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Re:Show HN: How to make your own glowing notification cube by fweespeech on Friday May 08, 2015 @01:14PM (#9512862)
That looks neat. I honestly just used a standard wall mount display. ;)
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Re:Show HN: How to make your own glowing notification cube by jlees on Friday May 08, 2015 @10:49PM (#9515267)
I did exactly the same using LEDs and an Ikea lamp housing, with a Pi running Python to poll different APIs. It wasn't too difficult to get something simple running, but yes, hard to justify significant time!
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