habibi Alpha prototype · waitlist open

A voting machine for rooms full of people

Decide together. Press a key.

Habibi is a little yellow pager-style box that turns a group decision into a ten-second ritual. Everyone votes at once, nobody sees anyone else's vote, and the answer appears for the whole room — from a table of four to a theatre of 300.

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Open hardware · Designed in Chicago

Render of the yellow Habibi H-5 case with a dark screen bezel and five rubber pill keys
H-5 alpha case · render
3D model · H-5 Alpha

Spin it around.

Drag to rotate. Push the reveal slide, switch modes, or explode it to see the e-ink panel and ESP32 inside.

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Modes

One box. Three ways to decide.

The host picks a mode and every handset relabels its keys. The fifth key, ?, passes in any mode.

  • Mode 01 · 2 keys + ?

    Yes / No

    For groups deciding on an event, a venue, a date. Votes stay hidden until the reveal, so nobody waits to see which way the room leans.

  • Mode 02 · 3 keys + ?

    Like · Neutral · Dislike

    Hand a Habibi to every seat at a screening, up to 300. The audience reacts in the moment and the host projects the tally before the Q&A.

  • Mode 03 · 4 keys + ?

    Scrum poker, 1–4

    Estimate story points with a satisfying click instead of a browser tab. Simultaneous reveal; a wide spread flashes so the team knows to talk it out.

From 4 to 300

A table of four. A theatre of 300.

Every handset talks straight to one hub. The hub broadcasts each round, handsets wake, send one tiny vote and go back to sleep. No Wi-Fi to join, no phones. Friends in different cities? A cloud relay stands in for the hub.

  • Habibi Pack

    8 handsets + charging dock

    The hub lives in the dock. For teams, friends and film clubs.

  • Theatre Kit

    Up to 300 handsets per hub

    A hub with HDMI out to the projector, plus charging crates. Handed out at the door, collected at the exit. For cinemas, festivals and town halls.

  • Remote Rooms

    Same vote, different cities

    No extra hardware. Each Habibi joins a room code over home Wi-Fi, or through a phone over Bluetooth, and a cloud relay runs the round.

How it works

Ten seconds, start to reveal

  1. 01

    Host picks a mode

    On the host Habibi or the phone app. Every handset buzzes and its screen relabels the keys.

  2. 02

    Everyone presses once

    Keys light up to confirm. Change your mind until the host pushes the reveal slide.

  3. 03

    Votes travel quietly

    Each handset fires its vote straight to the hub over ESP-NOW, then sleeps again. No Wi-Fi to join, no accounts, no phones.

  4. 04

    The room sees the answer

    On every handset, on a TV or projector via the hub's web page, or both.

Specs

Built to be handled.

A 90s pager you clip to your belt: sanded-smooth 3D-printed shell, crisp e-ink screen, five rubber pill keys, and an ESP32-C6 inside, so it's hackable down to the last line. The hub runs on a Raspberry Pi.

Exploded render of the Habibi case showing the screen bezel, five keys, top shell, bottom shell, and belt clip
Exploded view · 3D-printed PETG shell
Brain
ESP32-C6 per handset · Pi Zero 2 W hub
Radios
ESP-NOW · Zigbee/Thread-ready
Keys
5 rubber pill keys + reveal slide
Display
2.13″ e-ink, zero power at rest
Case
Matte yellow PETG, ~92 × 60 × 22 mm, belt clip
Power
LiPo + USB-C; sleeps between rounds
Group size
4 to 300 handsets per hub

Get a Habibi for your crew.

Habibi Pack for teams, Theatre Kit for venues. Pricing and the first-batch date go to the waitlist first.

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