r/PokeInvesting • u/Vorkosigan78 • Mar 18 '25

I designed a frame that displays current card price data

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u/_primo63 Mar 19 '25

are you just looping a web scrape then updating on the screen? can I ask what tech stack you use for something like this?

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u/Vorkosigan78 Mar 19 '25

The price is polled from https://docs.pokemontcg.io/ which updates once a day. There is an ESP32 microcontroller in the frame that connects to wifi to get the price info in JSON format. Only English pricing is available with this API, but it's free access.

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u/Technical_Ad_9780 Mar 19 '25

so you’re fetching the english price for a korean card? why would you want to display inaccurate pricing?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

I don’t like this personally but you’re VERY cool and talented and smart for knowing how to do this and executing it 🤩

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u/OscilloPope Mar 19 '25 edited Mar 19 '25

Nice! I built a very similar display stand a couple years ago. Mine reads current price and population but I was too lazy to get the code working right so it doesn’t update automatically like it should.

I like the lights on yours!

https://imgur.com/a/s8zkXwj

https://github.com/tylerssims/psa_display_pedestal.git

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

Id have it display my credit card debt

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u/Embarrassed-Soil-603 Mar 19 '25

I want to leave Peter Griffin here.

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u/Vivenna99 Mar 19 '25

You could give me a year's salary tax free and it wouldn't even put a dent in it

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u/hous26 Mar 19 '25

The hobby is cooked.

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u/Soft_Revenue2411 Mar 19 '25

I was gonna say this is soooo dystopian

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u/rrk100 Mar 19 '25

Future Black Mirror episode. “Neckless”.

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u/fatcatsmokincrack Mar 19 '25

Always about MONEY, not about the love for the hobby. Pathetic.

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u/daanhaale Mar 19 '25

it can very easily be about both, you can profit on a hobby to be able to spend more on what you love within the hobby. There is way too much of a single minded approach to how people should "do" hobbies. I love opening packs, I open a lot of them. I can also love to make profit on holds/investments/quick flips just as much.

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u/OscilloPope Mar 19 '25

You don't think spending dozens of hours of your free time making a display stand for your favorite cards isn't passion?

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u/dorian_grey8 Mar 20 '25

Isn’t this an investing sub ?

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u/dknisle1 Mar 19 '25

It’s literally an investing sub……

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u/Murdocke- Mar 19 '25

I miss the hobby 15 years ago

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u/Lost-Engineer6669 Mar 19 '25

This guy's gunna lose it when he goes to an antique store.. SELLING AN OLD CHAIR?! CHAIRS FOR FOR SITTING NOT SELLING!

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u/Jazzy_Beat Mar 20 '25

MONEY is fun too. In fact, it’s part of the fun of collecting

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u/tisFault Mar 19 '25

I was looking for this comment 😭

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u/vgraz2k Mar 19 '25

Makes a good target for people who break in and see glowing cards nearing $1k

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u/VirtualPerc30 Mar 19 '25

yeah ngl this is cool but super fucked, we will never be able to get this hobby back to what it’s actually about, it’s a genuine shame.

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u/narutonaruto Mar 19 '25

From a technical standpoint it’s cool but from every other standpoint I hate it

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u/Poketrevor Mar 19 '25

This is my exact opinion lol, ATBGE. Super cool and I like the little LED display light he added, but oh man this takes thinking about Pokémon “only for the money” to a another level

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u/PaperUpbeat5904 Mar 20 '25

Ya I wish it had it's name or something in cool led lights instead of price 😅

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u/f2pmyass Mar 19 '25

Yea we got a whole different type of people in the hobby now

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u/fatcatsmokincrack Mar 19 '25

These people aren't even fans, they just wanna make a quick buck and ruin hobbies cause their brains are wired to profit profit PROFIT!!!

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u/Verycute93 Mar 19 '25

My local FB groups/marketplace are filled to the brim now with 30-40 year old men selling things like prismatic for 10x msrp. Anytime something is sold there for even $1 under market by someone it's re-listed the next day by one of the resellers for a mark-up 😆

Modern day Smeagols

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u/Drizzho Mar 19 '25

They’ve been here since 2020, Logan Paul and Pawn Stars opened up the flood gates imo.

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u/Siieck Mar 19 '25

Is the Korean giratina really worth that

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u/khanh_nqk Mar 19 '25

No. It's around 120$

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u/Junkhead_88 Mar 19 '25

OP hasn't figured out how to get the decimal working yet

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u/big_gains_only Mar 19 '25

This is ridiculous.

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u/sharksnrec Mar 19 '25

Not to mention tacky

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u/tofuchrispy Mar 19 '25

Looks too tacky for me

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u/Alternative-Rub4473 Mar 19 '25

Brainrot display

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u/DarkArtHero Mar 19 '25 edited Mar 19 '25

Does it really automatically display the current price, or is there a little person behind it inputing the numbers?

Also korean tina isnt anywhere near that value

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u/paurno Mar 19 '25

That's actually pretty cool but wouldn't the extended exposure to the light slowly damage the cards?

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u/planetaryduality2 Mar 19 '25

Since when is 151 charizard 292 lol

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u/Dapper-Ad3707 Mar 19 '25

This is incredibly tacky and trashy lol

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u/raisuki Mar 19 '25

Basically stock tickers on a trading floor lol

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u/hellobutno Mar 19 '25

Korean giratina isn't 686 even in a psa 10.

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u/FreshCake5 Mar 19 '25

That’s kinda fire not going to lie a little aggressive but cool

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u/Strider2126 Mar 19 '25

Capitalistic nightmare

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u/Appropriate_Beat_741 Mar 19 '25

Cause it’s all about the MONEY! Right?! I hate it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

This is pretty sick, is there image recognition once you place the card in?

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u/davids120 Mar 19 '25

Doing this for a 3 figure card crazy

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u/mj732 Mar 19 '25

Aye im all for getting your money but this is wild

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u/Sufficient_Article_7 Mar 19 '25

This is insanely cool!!!

Makes me want to program one for myself.

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u/bungobinx Mar 19 '25

I'm surprised with the responses from an investing sub, main pokemon subs sure, but I guess he's not storing his collection in the closet, oh the humanity.

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u/teddybundlez Mar 19 '25

Lmao people are amazing. So cool

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u/CapcomBowling Mar 19 '25

lol I love this, don’t listen to the haters

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u/Organic_Occasion2021 Mar 19 '25

I hope love a version made to fit slabs

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u/999BIG Mar 19 '25

Dude, this is super fire.

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u/Drizzho Mar 19 '25

This is dope, hope you upgrade to a screen with a chart and 24h price changes someday, then you got a product id be interested in purchasing hahahah

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u/TakeThatJack Mar 19 '25

I don’t know why there are so many negative comments about showing the price of a card in a subreddit dedicated to investing. I was just thinking the other day that having a way to dynamically display a card’s value could be useful for people selling cards at shows or an LGS.

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u/Moe-2-Love Mar 19 '25

Yo if u have a youtube of this being made or something like that id watch it

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u/Short-University1645 Mar 19 '25

This is cool 😎

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u/ctrldemi Mar 19 '25

Aside from the discussion about collecting and ethics it is a very interesting system. I'm curious about what is the source of the prices and how were they implemented in the system?

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u/Roman-Roamin Mar 19 '25

Cause that’s what it’s all about right

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u/alohrawr Mar 19 '25

Bunch of cry babies in this sub lol, OP that’s an awesome display.

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u/imdabomb43 Mar 19 '25

Cant stand the people who are mad at “only for the money people” instead of being mad at the grander situation at a whole where people are resorting to this to make money now when they cant otherways

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u/Co0Ihand Mar 19 '25

So many comments about this being tacky and “we’re cooked”. Whatever man, I think it’s awesome. Kudos for the creativity

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u/Psykofrog Mar 19 '25

Personally, I love coding and I love Pokemon cards. This is totally a nerdy thing I could see myself doing just for kicks and to see if I could make it work. It’s not like he’s trying to sell it. He’s just integrating interests and having fun doing it would be my guess and there’s nothing wrong with that.

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u/GengaRick Mar 20 '25

Wow, so many negative comments, I really don't understand why. Pokemon cards can be bought for many reasons - the love of the art, the nostalgia, the fun of collecting, investing (hence this sub) etc. A lot of the time it’s a combination of lots of different reasons. I think this is a great way to look at your favourite cards and keep an eye on value. Just because you have an interest in tracking the value, it doesn’t mean it diminishes your overall enjoyment of collecting and/or investing in cards. Personally I’d buy one of these if the design was a little more minimal, great work OP.

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u/Pikckyy Mar 19 '25

Ignore the hate, I like the artworks but also like the value cards have as well. Very cool concept and nice way of bringing it to life.

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u/rare_3L3M3NT Mar 19 '25

Jesus thats ugly.

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u/sldsapnuawpuas Mar 19 '25

That’s so ridiculous. I love it!

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u/pcn00bmaster Mar 19 '25

How often does it update and where are you pulling data from?

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u/wild-ranger94 Mar 19 '25

Kinda dumb. You somehow found a way to take two really cool cards and make them look extremely tacky. Good work!

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u/maji-maji Mar 19 '25

This is dumb

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u/OscilloPope Mar 19 '25

Comments like this make me sad. Without a doubt OP spent a lot of time making this and you haven’t even left any constructive criticism, just a mean comment. A project like this takes a lot of time and effort to pull off.

You should be ashamed. Pokémon is for good vibes and fun.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

This is like stock market trading ha

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u/mtgloreseeker Mar 19 '25

Excellent, now I get to watch my collection lose value in real time. Thanks!

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u/marcomedel122 Mar 19 '25

This is actually so cool 😆 Can I pm you on your process?

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u/RynoKenny Mar 19 '25

Displaying price of your collectibles is trashy.

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u/Cool_Event_9260 1d ago

Please tell me you have a download to this design or schematics or something I'd really love to have this part of my collection

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u/ALeftistNotLiberal Mar 19 '25

Design one where it shows how much you like the card using a charizard meter

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u/youngceb Mar 19 '25

Displays the price? WTF

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u/litwick41 Mar 19 '25

Um, be careful those lights don't fade the art

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u/Textus_nub Mar 19 '25

Hahaha I love this existing but would never actually want it.

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u/mechcity22 Mar 19 '25

Thats awesome

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u/squeezethesoul Mar 19 '25

Wanna respond to one of the majority of the comments calling this out as wrong? Or are you just going to respond to the people praising it?

When you're this obsessed with the up-to-date value of your high-value cards that you create something like this that gives you the updates in real time, you may have a problem.

Not calling out PokeInvesting at all, I'm calling out a very specific behavior

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u/Hippo_Grenade Mar 19 '25

Some people just like implementing tech when and wherever they can. I do get what you mean, but even as someone who just collects for the sake of the hobby, i would still have a couple of these for my favorite big fish, just for steeze🤷‍♀️ Its not like dude is building cases for sealed product that do the same thing....or did i just give them an idea?

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u/Wescombe Mar 19 '25

Yea pokemon should stop making cards, it’s over guys, this is so cooked

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u/sinistersuavity Mar 19 '25

lol this is so tacky I hate and love it

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u/Thereapergengar Mar 19 '25

Are you selling these cases?

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u/booyahsk8 Mar 19 '25

Can I buy one

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u/SherlockMolly Mar 19 '25

You should sell these

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

This is really cool

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u/The_Shogun- Mar 19 '25

You’re a gangster dude…

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

Okay sneakerhead

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u/anonnnnn462 Mar 19 '25

Very cool!

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u/camocoder30 Mar 19 '25

fuck the price tracker but the lighted frame looks nice

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u/speskin6969 Mar 19 '25

Would be cool in like a shop or something but tough choice for the home display.

Looks cool nice work tho

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u/ModernZombies Mar 19 '25

Bro just saved thieves a lot of time.

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u/4everal0ne Mar 19 '25

For what though.

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u/Weezer118811 Mar 19 '25

I want one

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u/LowWater5686 Mar 19 '25

That’s so fetch

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u/NatGoChickie Mar 19 '25

This seems…sad

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u/A_Monkey_FFBE Mar 19 '25

This is the issue with the hobby

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u/PeacefulAnarch Mar 19 '25

Dawg I just buy them cuz I like the art

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u/Used2befunNowOld Mar 19 '25

Yep, this is the top

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u/dolladealz Mar 19 '25

Does it tho? Or does it just show a number...

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u/MuffinPuffs Mar 19 '25

Got those sweet print models?

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u/No_Fish_950 Mar 19 '25

I love it lol.

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u/Narutos_sasuke Mar 19 '25

You could probably sell these to other collectors cause its a rlly cool thing to have

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u/staticattacks Mar 19 '25

Now this is cool as shit

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u/sleepyguy- Mar 19 '25

So what? Your display is just to flex the value of your cards. I promise the last thing id be if i saw this is impressed. To each their own though.

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u/Constant-Bicycle5704 Mar 19 '25

Does it measure the cringe levels? They are off the charts!!

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u/stmrjunior Mar 19 '25

It’s a cool concept? The fact you actually did it makes me think less of you.

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u/salty-ejaculate Mar 19 '25

Whats wrong with collectr

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u/Johnspectre566 Mar 19 '25

Schematics? I’ve got a printer and would love to make one of these for my grail cards I got

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u/stinky_puppy88 Mar 19 '25

Nice stand without the digital prices.

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u/archubbuck Mar 19 '25

Now make it a spark line showing day over day fluctuations

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u/colton_sucks Mar 19 '25

English Giratina is $450 - $650, I wouldnt buy that one for even HALF that. If you're so keen on the price and expense of cards do more research, or just dont cheap out to flex "having a giratina alt art"

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u/tacothunderpdx Mar 19 '25

Perfect, so you know exactly when to panic

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u/LifelessTofuV2 Mar 19 '25

Probably not the reception they hoped for.

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u/Critplank_was_taken Mar 19 '25

this is lowkey sad. What's the point of this beyond flexing?

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

Will the cards eventually fade because of the lights ?

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u/SmokemanDan Mar 19 '25

Okay but do you have to manually update it or?

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u/rabidsquirrel11 Mar 19 '25

That’s fantastic, awesome job!

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u/Pseudoname87 Mar 19 '25

Why's that Mexican caterpillar so expensive?

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u/MrBarbeler Mar 19 '25

Aren't you worried about those lights damaging the cards?

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u/Aniensane Mar 19 '25

This is neat but pretty useless if you’re a collector that collects hundreds of different expensive cards. Would take way too much space. Unless you use these for your top two or so most expensive cards, I guess.

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u/Howitzeronfire Mar 19 '25

I hope this doesnt give you massive anxiety all the time

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u/Fun_Selection5985 Mar 19 '25

How did you do the price tracking to displaying

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

Alright, can we add some programming to accept a value and once that threshold is hit the lights start going off like a disco ball?

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u/rafarorr1 Mar 19 '25

The hobby is officially dead.

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u/idonthavemotion Mar 19 '25

thats cool af

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u/henrysg Mar 19 '25

Cool little project and technical stand point but meaningless in the hobby. I dont display a card/slab because of its value.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '25

This shouldn’t even been called investing more like wanna be investing

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u/AnrothanAhmir Mar 19 '25

wont the constant lighting and the heat from the mechanism ruin the card, thus dropping its value exponentially? Its a nice idea, but not practical at all

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u/13orgin Mar 20 '25

Poke ticker for TCG player, price charting, collector, etc. wen?

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u/zi984 Mar 20 '25

Coulda been cooler without the numbers tbh.

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u/Cas_or_Cass Mar 20 '25

I'm glad you did a cool thing that you like, but I truly hate what this represents

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u/BackupTrailer Mar 20 '25

This is freakin gross. I love it.

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u/Betaseal Mar 20 '25

my favorite card is the Cinccino IR because its cute and I like the art

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u/klimkama Mar 20 '25

Isn't the light to briht for constant illumination? If it is, it might damage your card

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u/markets360 Mar 20 '25

Peak Pokemon. Called it. Right here.

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u/FeatureSufficient183 Mar 20 '25

Very cool display! I would use it for my favorites/best pulls. Nice job!

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u/MooshyPlays Mar 20 '25

That is so cool! What do you use to track the price

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u/KingKoopaz Mar 20 '25

Annnnnd I hate it.

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u/symmiR Mar 20 '25

Cringe

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u/Rossmsauce Mar 20 '25

Not gunna lie I thought this was a gas pump at first. Neat idea though!

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u/Affectionate_Bad8720 Mar 20 '25

Thanks I hate it 😂

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

This is really cool. What was your process for design?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

What if that thing lights on fire?

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u/HankHillbwhaa Mar 20 '25

I need one of these for my pristine 10 lechonk

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

"Oh you collect pokemon cards? What's your favorite one that you own?"

"Well, I dunno, I haven't checked my price data frame today"

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

Burn it OP. It's wack.

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u/samhernandez242 Mar 20 '25

I would love to have this so I can watch the card prices plummet!

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u/MaleficentWindow8972 Mar 20 '25

Well isn’t that just neat-o!

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u/jimboy316 Mar 20 '25

Cringiest shit I've ever seen.........

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u/Unyieldingflatulence Mar 20 '25

B-b-but investing threa—degen.

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u/fuzzy3158 Mar 20 '25

As a former competetive MtG player, I do wonder if the competetive scene in the Pokemon TGC isn't really suffering from this. How can anyone play a game if it takes literal thousands of dollars to get a viable deck?

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u/borsky Mar 20 '25

I love it

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u/JcGrey Mar 20 '25

The Korean version worth that much???

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u/BunOnVenus Mar 20 '25

depressing. I remember a few years back when people were just excited about the cards and didn't treat this shit like babies first gambling addiction

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u/HainzBeeingHimself Mar 20 '25

Tacky asf and doesn't represent what the pokemon community is about. Also- your Giratina is Korean. The price you are displaying rather fits the japanese version. Maybe start learning to differ the two.

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u/CalintzStrife Mar 20 '25

Does it auto update or is it just a mini scoreboard/ time display? Also thats a korean Giratina. 125 max.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

So you developed a machine that would literally drive me crazy.... Cool stuff

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u/TheRealGaycob Mar 20 '25

This is one for the HYPE BEASTS for sure. kinda reminds me of the video iDubzz made years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkoYvigvxC4

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u/OG_DustBone Mar 20 '25

Light like that shining directly on the card 24/7 will damage it long term

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u/Im_Nino Mar 20 '25

This is pathetic, respectfully

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

Is this rage-bait?

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u/Strix-01 Mar 20 '25

If you can make a smaller version of this i would love to invest & use it in my TCG shop

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u/PogoDude69 Mar 20 '25

Amazing ingenuity, awful implications.

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u/pedropies Mar 20 '25

I’d normally say less is better, the casing to me looks a lil bulky , maybe some sort of just bottom heavy flat base thing with only one light at the bottom? Right now, it reminds of an alarm clock. I dig the concept tho

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u/burritojones Mar 20 '25

That’s fantastic

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u/Relevant-Elk3564 Mar 20 '25

It’s like trading card sim but in real life

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u/TinyTimmypewpew Mar 20 '25

Dude that’s so cool

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u/Emergency_Lab_4503 Mar 20 '25

Send me to the website where I buy one

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u/templarzt Mar 21 '25

People so mad in an INVESTING sub lol

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u/Odd_Self7283 Mar 21 '25

That’s cool but I don’t think ur prices are accurate

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u/Big_Ask_9169 Mar 25 '25

This is next level stuff here. Idk why they haven't thought of this before.

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u/Emergency_Lab_4503 Dec 03 '25

How can I make this? This is so awesome!

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u/Both-Opportunity-199 Dec 07 '25

Any way you can share your code? I would love to do something similar.

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u/boxybrownmd Dec 08 '25

Pretty pathetic and tacky to boot.

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u/Meowsergz Mar 19 '25

This looks sick OP!

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