I'd love to add a touchpad-style control to make this usable on mobile. This seems like something someone should have made before, but I've not found anything suitable.
Seems like it would be a good idea to add crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="origin" attributes to user-provided images. This would prevent any 3rd party tracking or referrer leaking.
For more 80's microcomputer BASIC nostalgia, there's also INPUT magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_(magazine)). I spent hours and hours as a kid poring through those magazines. Archive.org has the entire series as PDFS - https://archive.org/details/inputmagazine. They were really good at explaining core programming concepts and the illustrations were also amazing.
I'll be putting out our blog post about this first thing tomorrow (we had it ready to go for next week, but I think now's a good time to add some fuel to the fire). Essentially the toy uses Bluetooth LE very insecurely and it has a speaker and a microphone. Guess what happens next?
The notification is a summary of the current scan (until you stop it). New devices are ones you've never seen before the current scan. I often run it on my commute, the 'total' number give me an idea of how busy (in terms of BLE devices) it is today.
It seems that eInk technology has reached it's limits in terms of contrast. I was disappointed when I compared the new Kindle Paperwhite to my Kindle Keyboard. With the Paperwhite's backlight off, the contrast seemed a little worse - blacks were a little more grey.