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The Tech&Stock News at a glance device is a 6" long by 3" wide by 2" deep black box with a micro-chip shaped front face. The front face has two back lit icons set against the white background of the middle plate - one each for news and stocks. LED lights connected to the particle Photon are fixed below the white middle plate such that when they light up, the diffused colors are visible through icons. The red and green LEDs light up the stock icon while the yellow LEDs light up the news icon. The assembly was designed in Illustrator and laser cut out of 1/8" acrylic. The photon is powered through a micro USB cable to a USB power source like a laptop.

When first connected, all LEDs light up for 1 second. Then it goes dark. Whenever a tech news item is published, yellow lights increase in brightness by 10 for 1 second then start to decay by 5 for every second thereafter. An increase in stock indices lights up the green LEDs by 10 for 1 second after which they decay by 5. A decrease in stock indices lights up the red LEDs in the same way.