Ordered a new toy!

PetPirate · Post by **PetPirate** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:45 am

Look at these cool little things for only 30-odd dollars! A 1.5", 65k colour intelligent LCD screen that is super-simple to control.

Here's the plan:

A little hand-held video screen that wirelessly connects to a tank controller... and displays full-colour graphs of temps, pH and Redox over the past 24 hours..... AND (oh yes, run-on sentence of the century) allows me to control fishly things without having to get up off the sofa!!!

So, if you don't hear from me again for another six months.... You'll know what I'm messing around with.

Post by **RTR** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:51 am

Please! I am the master of the run-on sentence. You have a long way to go to catch up!

I am not that techie - I actively do not want read-out. But for the technologically obsessed, it is no doubt a fun toy.

PetPirate · Post by **PetPirate** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:38 pm

Just got hold of the little thing in the post, all the way from Australia.....

For now, I'm just playing....

Here's the screen, (+ fingerprints):

And here it is in action (just testing it out... It's really bright and crisp, actually... hard to snap a pic of):

Cool, no?

Bred · Post by **Bred** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:49 pm

Wow, that's extremely awesome.
Have you ever thought of marketing your creations?

Tihsho · Post by **Tihsho** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:55 pm

Awsome! You should maybe consider starting a tech service for fishtanks.

lisalisa · Post by **lisalisa** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:02 pm

NO kidding, I'd love to have even half the stuff you've made!!

Tihsho · Post by **Tihsho** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:53 pm

"Jhong's Aquatic Technician Service"

AKA "JATS"

Lol.

PetPirate · Post by **PetPirate** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:53 pm

Yikes! Sounds like I go round scraping people's glass....

To be honest, it is in the back of my mind that I could build something commercially, but it would be a long haul, and I don't even know if I can successfully make them for myself first.

But, if I were to develop a reasonably-priced product, I'm in the right place!

j

Jager · Post by **Jager** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 12:09 am

you mean on the forum or in slightly capitalist leaning china controlled territory?

cause one is good the other is a bit dicey at times

PetPirate · Post by **PetPirate** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:24 pm

I did mean China actually

I don't agree with your summation of it being "slightly capitalist leaning".... It is, to all intents and purposes, very capitalist (in most areas).

If you're going to build a product, best place to do it is ... um... the place that makes everything else competitively.

j

Tihsho · Post by **Tihsho** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:17 pm

Good point.

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