Physical dashboard that can sit on your desk

[trustfor]

I'm passionate about product design and I've often thought it would be amazing to have a real time (or almost real time) dashboard showing current network speed, that was tangible and not on your computer screen. Like a clock, or the Tachometer your car.

 

I'm just wondering what people's thoughts are on this? If it's of interest to anyone it would be fun to pull together a team of people on here and potentially use testmy.net for the back end. 

 

Let me know your thoughts, critiques, and ideas.

[CA3LE]

First, I've been writing in PM to @trustfor since this topic was posted.  For anyone wondering why it took over 4 years for me to respond to this.  trustfor just pinged the message and got me thinking about it again.  I started to write this back in PM but feel it's better posted on this topic.

 

I've continued to develop My Sensor but have never released anything.

 

It's taken me way too long.  I continue to run the program myself.  Received a dozen or so credits on my Comcast bill as a result of running it and in some cases I wouldn't have known my connection went down without it.  But I need to do more work to make it production ready.

 

I'll be on my next round of development very soon.  I added you to a new group, Beta 25 and will contact you before I open the beta for this.  ...that is of course if you're interested in trying that program early.

 

Now that I'm thinking about this and reading this original topic again... I think we can achieve your goal in a simpler way.

 

The program I've been working on wouldn't just be the display, it would also run tests.

 

But, the desktop display unit could be just a display... and then the tests could be performed by any other computer on the network.

 

How about I tie in a simplified version of the new latency program (My Sensor) into the main site.  That way we'll have nice, live latency results.  I can make a simple page that shows just your last results live, graphed similar to your mockup.  Then give you the ability to change the stylesheet to match your project.

 

So your device only needs to have the ability to open a web browser.