The little screen on your lanyard.
Your next lecture, voice notes, a Pet and a name badge, on your keys.I made unidex to clip onto a uni lanyard or a set of keys. It shows your next lecture, records voice notes, keeps a little Pet that visits your friends' Pets, and works as a name badge. Between presses it sleeps, so the battery lasts for days.
Pre-orders are closed.
The full launch is next. Join the waitlist and I'll email you as soon as it opens.
Curious? Try it in your browser ↗. It runs the real firmware.
Seven apps, two buttons.
A moves, B opens.
Timetable
Your next class or event, with a countdown. Reads your Apple Calendar.
A next · B details
Notes
Hold B and talk. It's transcribed, tidied up and saved as Markdown.
hold B to record
Pet
A little creature you dress up and name. It meets your friends' Pets on their unidex.
A hi · B dress up · hold B meet
Badge
Name tags, logos or pictures, full screen. You make them in your browser.
A next · B picker
Dex
A WiFi collecting game. Every new network it hears goes in the list, with a rarity.
B scan · A list
Chooser
Pick two to six squares, press B, and it lands on a random winner.
A count · B spin
Games
Four one-button games: Flappy, Dino, Stack and Jetpack, with best scores.
A next · B play
Pets that meet
Two unidex, one room. They talk straight to each other over radio, so there's no WiFi or app involved.
Bring two close: Hold B on the Pet to open Meet on both. The dots fill as they get closer.
Hold B on the Pet to open Meet on both. The dots fill as they get closer.
Built to be hacked
Anyone can write apps and plugins for unidex. It's a few lines of Lua in a text editor, and there's nothing to install or compile.
You can try anything without worrying. Each app runs in a sandbox with its own memory, its own folder and a time limit, and it can't reach your WiFi password, keys or notes. If one breaks, the device says "App error" and goes back to the list.
- Apps
- An app can draw anything, use both buttons like the built-in apps, keep its own files, read the time and battery, and go online if it asks for WiFi. Make a game, a habit tracker or a set of flash cards.
- Plugins
- A plugin adds to one of the built-in apps instead. For now that's Badge, where a plugin draws a badge that changes, like today's date or the moon.
- 1
Write it. Copy a template from the docs and change it.
- 2
Try it. In the browser emulator, or on your own unidex over USB.
- 3
Send it in. Open a pull request. It gets tried in the emulator and read by a person before it goes in the store.
- pixel e-paper screen
- 200×200
- buttons, nothing else
- 2
- apps, built in
- 7
- battery life
- 7 days
What's inside
Keep scrolling to take it apart.
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- Front housing
- Speaker
- 1.54" e-paper display
- Board, ESP32-S3
- Battery
- Back, with the keychain loop
- Buttons
Join the waitlist
The full launch is next. Join the waitlist and I'll email you as soon as it opens. I put together and test every unidex before it ships.
- Pre-ordersClosed on 10 October.
- Pre-ordered?Yours arrives by Friday 6 November.
- Full launchDate to come. The waitlist hears first.
All the code is on GitHub. You can update unidex, make badges, design your Pet, set up Notes and install apps, all from your browser.