We are happy to be supported by the Prototype Fund Switzerland in realising the Zero Power Indicator project.
Open Data CH, through the Prototype Fund Switzerland, ”promotes innovative open-source projects that strengthen the common good”. We responded to their call for projects in sustainable digitization and digital sufficiency with a proposal to tackle a reimagining of the always-on indicator LED used in hardware interfaces, which have a surprisingly high cumulative energy usage and reinforce a culture of constant digital alertness. The project entailed investigating and prototyping with existing, appropriate technologies and to compare their suitability and replicability, focussing on electrophoresis, electromagnetism, electrochromism, and electrowetting.