THE FULL LINEUP
Seven desk gadgets, seven obsessions
Each one is a 3.5″ color touchscreen wrapped in a 3D-printed enclosure, wired to a real data source, and hand-assembled in Olive Branch, Mississippi. Checkout happens on Etsy, and the button on each gadget’s page opens its listing, with the final price, colors and shipping.
live data Storm Sentinel
WiFi desktop weather station
from $109.99
Forecasts, severe-weather alerts, and radar straight from the National Weather Service, plus an Outdoor Score and a storm-cloud mascot with opinions.
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live data Satellite Sentinel
ISS & Starlink tracker
from $119.99
Counts down to the next visible ISS pass over your house and tells you exactly which way to look. Tracks up to 100 Starlink satellites for good measure.
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live data Seismic Sentinel
WiFi earthquake tracker
from $109.99
Earthquakes from around the world as the USGS reports them, on a globe lit by the real sun, with an estimate of whether the nearer ones would have been felt where you live.
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live data Squawk Box
live flight tracker display
from $119.99
A desk radar showing the real planes around you, colored by altitude. When one flies close enough to see, it tells you which way to look.
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live data Pro Football Scoreboard
WiFi pro football scoreboard
from $109.99
Follows one pro football club all week (next kickoff, standings, injury report, roster moves), then takes over the screen the moment they play.
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live data Phosphor
network monitor display
from $114.99
An always-on internet health monitor: live ping, packet loss, jitter, and a plain-English verdict (HEALTHY, DEGRADED, or WAN DOWN) in the glow of a retro terminal.
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live data Tide Station
digital WiFi tide clock
from $109.99
Real-time NOAA water levels, the next high and low with countdowns, moon phase, and current conditions where the station reports them, for the beach house or the landlocked dreamer.
See the gadgetPick your shell: Choose your enclosure from Red, Blue, Gray and Black, plus Semi-Transparent (a frosted look that shows off the electronics) and Glow-in-the-Dark (charges in daylight, glows softly at night). Seismic Sentinel also comes in two enclosures made only for it: Hyper Red/Blue (the one pictured) and Hyper Yellow/Green.
SIDE BY SIDE
Which PlankLabs gadget should I get?
They look like siblings and none of them does the same job. There isn’t a best one. The useful question is which thing you already catch yourself checking.
| Gadget | What it watches | Data source | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storm Sentinel WiFi desktop weather station | The sky over your zip code, out to the regional radar picture | National Weather Service (lower 48 states) | People who already check radar several times a day |
| Satellite Sentinel ISS & Starlink tracker | The International Space Station and up to 100 Starlink satellites over your address | Daily orbital elements + on-device SGP4 | Space people who have somehow never seen the Station go over |
| Seismic Sentinel WiFi earthquake tracker | Up to 60 earthquakes worldwide, nearest and most significant first | U.S. Geological Survey earthquake feeds (worldwide) | People who open the USGS earthquake map before they open the news |
| Squawk Box live flight tracker display | Up to 25 aircraft within 25, 50 or 75 miles of your house | ADS-B flight data from volunteer receivers (adsb.lol) and other providers | The person who looks up and asks “what was that one?” |
| Pro Football Scoreboard Beta WiFi pro football scoreboard | One pro football club, every week of the year | Independent sports feeds | The fan whose club deserves a permanent spot on the desk |
| Phosphor network monitor display | Your router, your internet connection and your DNS, continuously | Your own network | Anyone who needs to know whether it is the WiFi or the ISP |
| Tide Station digital WiFi tide clock | The water at any one of 200+ NOAA tide stations | NOAA tide stations | Boaters, anglers and beach-house people who plan around the tide |