Blog · · Michael Sanford
A new home for JamCast on the web
Why jamcast.io moved off its old store page, what the sign can do today, what is still planned, and why every price on the site is a draft.
Until now, jamcast.io was a store page: five product names, five prices, and a line of placeholder text under each one. It did not say what a JamCast sign actually does. This site replaces it.
What changed
Every sign you see on this site is drawn by the same renderer the sign itself runs. The scrolling ticker on the home page, the single-panel frames and the size comparison are real renderer output, LED for LED, with sample scores and prices. If a font looks blocky, that is because it is a bitmap font built for a 32-LED-tall display.
What works today
JamCast has 24 apps that render real content right now: NFL, college football, NBA, WNBA, MLB and NHL games, team stats, a stock ticker, crypto prices, weather, clocks, countdowns, word of the day, today in history, Netflix Top 10, social follower counts and free text. You arrange them into playlists and schedule those playlists by time, day and date in the web app.
The catalog lists many more apps: standings, player stats, soccer, fantasy leagues, racing, golf and news. Those are planned, not built. The features page lists them separately so nobody mistakes one for the other.
Why the prices say draft
The old store listed prices from $199 to $1,299. Those numbers are on the pricing page, marked as drafts, because they were set before the sizes were final. Real prices will replace them before launch.
What is next
A 3D-printed cabinet that screws straight onto the LED panels is in development. There is no date for it yet, and there will not be one on this site until it is ready.
Questions are welcome at hello@jamcast.io.