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I really appreciate your comments about both websites! You might be right about the blinking logo, but did you feel like the other blinking parts of the website are overwhelming too? I'll definitely either slow it enough and not going all the way down to a brightness of zero or just adding support for disabling each entity animation from the rpi config. I felt like it might be overwhelming but after spending a lot of time on the platform I just couldn't notice any type of animations anymore and I thought it might be not that overwhelming overall.

I genuinely don't really know how to make videos that might catch the viewer eye, and overall I don't really have a "good enough" equipment or a place to make videos. But I feel like your suggestion for yt was the missing piece that I didn't think of. Which I'll definitely take into consideration.

Thanks for your feedback about remohexa.com too, I'm glad you liked it. The changing colors idea was just a totally random thought while I was making that page, but it might be also a good idea to implement some kind of accent color that changes with each visit (not each refresh) for the real website too. Don't you think?

That makes sense you're controlling the whole environment.

Out of curiosity though, why keep a DE at all if the user won't ever interact with it? What prevents you from getting rid of it entirely?

But as for my case, I don't have access to the user's device. I'm giving them an experience through a website on their phone once they're connected to a Wi-Fi network, so I can't really control their screen or go beyond the browser limitations.

Just finished building a side project that utilizes Android's captive portals, The main idea was an offline space for strangers who would randomly connect to an open wifi network. From there their device would open the captive portal webview in full screen, and from there they can explore the platform.

I used a unique modern matrix and polished everything with another project I built which's a deterministic picture generator used to let people interact with something interesting, already using it to produce their default profile picture using their id as the seed.

It meant to run on raspberry pi and I already built an img for the first release.

https://github.com/remohexa/rematrix-gallery

And there's also a demo: https://rematrix.remohexa.com/