Who wants $600 in Starbucks gift cards for best workable concept?

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This already exists.

where? Would be great for elderly parents…

https://www.amazon.com/iRemember-Compartments-Messages-Rechargeable-Bluetooth/dp/B00HXP9OKM

Hey an update. I bought this for myself and it works great so far. A little pricey at $160 but if the alternative is forgetting to take my medicine…



Hmmm was looking at doing something similar for my own, I think for the size you’re need I see some issue mainly due to need for comms, without custom pcb/smd work that would be a bit difficult, and development of those is quite expensive. If you were to go up in size a bit to be able to utilize commodity electronics like esp32 or something smaller even that provides ble and/or WiFi out of the box that would significantly drop the cost of not only development but production too.

An ESP32 Pico is about 5mm square and contains a WiFi+BT radio. It’s an easy to use chip and requires minimal external components (a handful of caps). Costs about $3.

Great chip. It’s all I use at work anymore. Program in C# using .NET nanoFramework.

The attached picture is of a board design I just finished. The square chip is the Esp32. Its Wi-Fi antenna is directly below.

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