It’s not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/, neither on https://flipperzero.one/ or their Instagram?
They have been plagued with peopling scamming people in their name before
Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.
In this case I believe the post is legit.
(or the account was compromised, of course)
or something.
(I think lots of HN people have issues with reality so just in case the answer is: absolutely not.)
So yes except for the last point, and also the other points...
They only caught themselves while halfway filling in the code, and I'm sure that was captured too.
Don't underestimate organized crime.
Temp/humidity is simple enough, but reasonably priced CO2 sensors with any accuracy are an issue
However, the original inventor of the Pomodoro technique explicitly advocates a "low tech" approach - a mechanical kitchen timer, because he argued that the tactile and auditory elements (i.e., the turning moves and ticking sounds) get associated with the elements of the techniques in the human brain.
It would be interesting to evaluate both variants of the approach in a scientific experiment.
https://www.amazon.com/-/en/38-1005/dp/B00335P518 - about €7 or $13, depending on your geography
I think hardware that can "passively" be more useful with sensors and similar are easy wins. No reason it has to disrupt a timer, it just hides sensors you'd want within a device that would already be sitting out in your home/office.
+1 CO2/PM2.5
Or that it’s too complicated. Then another startup comes along to “simplify” the product and the cycle begins anew.
[1] https://sensirion.com/products/catalog/SCD30
[2] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/vindstyrka-air-quality-sensor-s...
I think it should also have NVMe and SFF-8644 for external disk shelves. At least 6x 10GbE, with 4 on SFPs and 2 on copper. A GPU with excellent hardware transcoding, and slotted VRAM for that local LLM fun. Plus an 8k projector for movie nights at the office.
And a pony; every single one of these fucking kitchen timers must also come with a pony.
It will listen in all directions at once, 24/7/365, and send the recordings home to mother.
If done right, that should keep the end-user price below $10.
People want to come in sometimes to access a closet, but they don't know if your in a meeting, so it would also need to detect if your in a meeting, and the microphone being on or off is not enough because people often mute themselves. Calendar access is also not enough because sometimes you start a meeting without a calendar thingy, and also knowing if your 'on air' with an open door can tell them if they have to be worried if they could be on camera if they walk by the door.
It could be a very simple LED, it just needs a good agent on your desktop. Also a 'yellow light' for an upcoming meeting in a couple minutes (so this is where calendar access is useful) or an orange light for camera & microphone off.
They're referenced on the second picture on the site, with the backside of the device that shows you how to control it.
Looks great, love the dial/switch big button combo, and the opportunity to buy something attractive that's a "hackable screen with buttons" is very high for me.
Another likely use is to be a controller for audiobooks or music in our rumpus if I ever get a hold of one. Again, drivable by kids and oldies who visit is a huge plus.
I understand Keybase allows you to link up a bunch of accounts, but it doesn't prevent you from making all of those accounts say you are the CEO/CTO of some company unfortunately.
At least a GitHub profile link can usually be used to validate that this account actually has write access to a GitHub organization, so you can somewhat see it's the right person. Requires them to have pushed any public commits to within that organization though.
Then take a look at the HN profile, which leads you to the Keybase profile.
Doesn't have any of the social "features".
What are the odds of a kit version woth a lower pricetag and some assembly required?
Or even better, a version that ships with everything besides "the brain" and allows us to use our Flipper Zero as the brain :) Looking at the old blog articles about the project, it seems it got started with using Flipper Zero as the brain, so maybe it's not that far-fetched.
"We are looking for a professional multidisciplinary designer to join our Busy Status Bar team and help bring the product to Kickstarter, generating excitement among future users."
Pavel Zhovner (a lead of flipper devices) wrote about Busy status bar 3 months ago in his Telegram channel (https://t.me/zhovner_hub/2073).
At https://flipperzero.one/ you can find habr.com blog link. The first post in Flipper blog was made by Zhovner https://habr.com/ru/users/zhovner/ (who has a link to telegram channel zhovner_hub).
This explanation is much more forthright.
“The main idea is to tell people to ‘F—— off for 15 minutes’ before they get to interrupt you.”
https://flipperdevices.com/jobs#!/tab/282752814-2
…linked at the bottom of https://flipperzero.one/
I am not saying it is a scam it's just very strange that all connections between busy.bar and flipper devices are one way. One would expect some two way mentions
(And in case anyone reads my comment without seeing that the founder of Flipper already commented confirming this is theirs, not a scam: that's the case.)
To be extra cautious, select it to make sure it's real text and not a screenshot of a real copyright notice - this is a common workaround. There is also one known proof of concept exploit using false glyphs in web fonts - this is why many security researchers disable the loading of fonts.
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I just got 8 of those with no authorization