$3,000 Messaging Display?! Vestaboard Review 

It seems like the fee is only for additional features, not the standard ones. It seems like the standard ones are included, and even those are numerous.

@@dryamakaregardless…

My first thought exactly… The future is subscriptions…

Wait you need a subscription? I’m out

⁠​⁠@@jcarter5521You don't need a subscription. Vestaboard offers a free API (cloud based + local), so you can control your board with your own custom code and display whatever you want.

Subscription on top of that price?

@@jcarter5521the subscription is optional. It simply unlocks more features. But you don’t NEED to buy it every year.

It’s not complicated…. But oh my god the labour… 8500 individual flaps to be lettered, control of 132 stepper motors. It’s pretty heavy going

Not sure, but as I understand it, each module is independent, so you would likely replace the damaged module, not the whole board.

Plus they only include a 20" power cable lmao. It's for rich people who are stupid

Money can buy happiness and wisdom 😂

i was thinking the same thing

The analog part of it is the charm for some

It's not an error. Each bit has to have 2 "flaps" of the same color - otherwise it would not be possible to show a bit in a single color (like the rest on the board at that time stamp). It most likely skipped to the next position hence red bottom and yellow upper part. Was this skip intentional - I don't know, someone with vestaboard app would have to find this picture and tell us how it was supposed to look.

A black sharpie or some white-out depending on the color of your board should do the trick 😂

That's what I do. It's a tremendously compelling piece of industrial art, and I love changing messages, but I don't need the subscription or any surprise coming to life of the Vestaboard.

Do it.

not ganna happen. this item from china cost 20,000 usd. already quoted. n u wont find the similar product anywhere. this is an expensive technology from the start

@@hazrieqshairi7873 neh split flaps are not hard to come by. They are dated tech and easy to make

@@hazrieqshairi7873expensive technology? 🤣🤣

@@Rixynator Split flaps like this (colored, custom font, etc) are expensive to make. And they're expensive to make for the opposite of the reason you've posted here, it's because they're dated. It's a specialty pretty much only used for art installations component now.

@@Rixynatorthey are stupid expensive. The ones in train stations got taken down because they have around 5 *million* parts and when they break, are very expensive to fix. This isn’t some cheap display, it’s an intricate mechanical device.

You could also draw on a piece of paper. You're missing the point, it's interactive art with a tactile feel that led screens don't have.