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Temperature, the day's sun arc, a two-cycle tide curve, and the next 12 hours.
Block Island 7:24 ● Live
64° Clear
wind 10 mph
wind 10 mph
↑ 5:18↓ 8:21
Tide High 12:40 · Low 6:55
Water64°▲ 1.2°
Surf3.3 ft
AirGoodAQI 41
Salt Light Instrument
A calm coastal instrument, hand-built in Maine.
A hardwood frame around a 7-inch screen, crowned with a lighthouse-inspired strip of light and stood up on a machined aluminum kickstand. It shows the weather, tides, sky, surf and the next ferry, computes the sun and moon on-device, and updates over the air. No account. No subscription.
Coming soon Pricing announced at launch.
Built like furniture
Each instrument is cut, assembled and finished one at a time. Choose the wood; the lit crown and the aluminum stand come standard.
Block Island 7:24 ● Live
64° Clear
wind 10 mph
wind 10 mph
↑ 5:18↓ 8:21
Tide High 12:40 · Low 6:55
Water64°▲ 1.2°
Surf3.3 ft
AirGoodAQI 41
Block Island 7:24 ● Live
Moon
Waxing gibbous 86% · ↑ 3:10p ↓ 1:42a
Overhead now
NESW
visibleblocked
AuroraKp 2.0 · quiet Jupiter well-placed after 9p
Block Island 7:24 ● Live
Surf
3.3ft
Knee–waist · clean Swell 4.1 ft @ 9sSW
Water 64° ▲ +1.2° vs 3 days
Shark activity near the island
A lighthouse for a crown
The top piece is drawn from a lighthouse lantern: a tapered cap holding a warm strip of light, the physical echo of the Data Beams mark. It glows soft and warm, never a harsh white bar.
A machined aluminum stand
On the back, a brushed-aluminum easel leg hinges near the top and angles to the surface, exactly like the support on a picture frame. One clean metal element against the wood.
Six calm views
One quiet pane of glass, swiped between six screens. Each one shows only what's worth a glance.
Sky
Tonight's moon phase, and where the sun, moon and planets sit over your deck.
Sea
Surf height and framing, swell, water temperature and trend, and shark activity near the island.
Ferry
A departure board for the next boat to and from Point Judith, stamped “Done for the Day” once the last boat has sailed.
Settings
Brightness and night mode, notifications, quiet hours, and the offline-mode ladder.
Notifications
Glanceable alerts for surf, wind, rain, sharks, air quality, aurora and worth-seeing sky events.
What's in the instrument
The launch version of the Salt Light Instrument is tuned specifically for Block Island. Dynamically updating information for other locations is coming soon.
The public feeds above are included over Wi-Fi. Non-public or commercial data feeds require self-hosting or a subscription.
Where it's headed
Marketed in the open, so you can watch it grow. These are in development, not yet shipping capabilities.
Local Signals sensors
An external-sensor family (a receiver dongle plus solderless modules) so your own backyard readings sit alongside the island's.
Off-grid radio
Software-defined radio and a long-range mesh, so the instrument can pull NOAA Weather Radio and nearby stations straight from the air. In development on the bench.
More coastlines
The launch version is tuned specifically for Block Island. Dynamically updating information for other locations is coming soon, with manual latitude/longitude entry as the groundwork.
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