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Lemon Box.

A desk device with a 4-inch touchscreen, designed and built for Lemon, the Argentine fintech, as a redeemable object in its rewards program. It shows the live crypto market, with our own firmware and cloud.

ESP32-S3C++Node.jsPuppeteerWebSocketRailway
Lemon Box. — Hardware · Product
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01 / Why they called us

Lemon wanted a physical, branded object for its rewards program: something users could redeem and keep on their desk.

02 / The problem they had

A physical product means solving hardware, firmware, enclosure, connectivity and content at once, and the end user has to set it up alone, with no technical support.

03 / How we solved it

We picked a 480×480 MaTouch ESP32-S3 touchscreen, wrote the firmware and built a cloud that renders the web interface and streams it to the device frame by frame.

04 / Technical approach

C++ firmware with Wi-Fi provisioning, WebSocket and JPEG decoding; a Node.js server with Puppeteer that captures the interface when it changes and sends the device's touch events back to the browser.

05 / Impact

Product delivered to Lemon with its branding, ready to redeem. The same hardware base is what Ferced Display runs on today.

06 / How long it took

Delivered. The project covered product design, firmware, cloud and the printed enclosure.

07 / What we needed from the client

Branding, deciding what the screen shows and validating the end-user experience.

08 / Process friction

Medium: hardware, firmware and cloud had to close at the same time, and every iteration was tested on the real device.