{"id":1245,"date":"2026-05-07T05:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:10:38","slug":"zero-power-indicator-open-hardware-research-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Zero Power Indicator; Open Hardware Research Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are happy to be supported by the Prototype Fund Switzerland in realising the <a href=\"https:\/\/prototypefund.opendata.ch\/en\/project\/zero-power-indicator-zpi\/\">Zero Power Indicator project. <br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/opendata.ch\/\">Open Data CH<\/a>, through the Prototype Fund Switzerland, &#8221;promotes\u00a0innovative open-source projects that strengthen the common good&#8221;. We responded to their call for projects in <em>sustainable digitization and digital sufficiency<\/em> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/GaudiLabs\/Zero-Power-Indicator-ZPI\">investigating and prototyping<\/a> with existing, appropriate technologies and to compare their suitability and replicability, focussing on electrophoresis, electromagnetism, electrochromism, and electrowetting.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, &#8221;promotes\u00a0innovative open-source projects that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaudi.ch\/GaudiLabs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}