loading the café

screen 01 · live board

SimSense for cafés · menu boards

The board runs itself.

Type your menu once and it is on the screen behind your counter, on any device with a browser. Add the product spotlight and an agent picks something different from your Shopify store every weekday morning - and tells you how many people were looking.

type your menu→ on the screen→ spotlight from your store→ camera counts→ agent rotates

Install the menu board

What you get

Two kits, one afternoon.

01

Your menu, on any screen

The Cafe Menu Board kit takes your items and prices in whatever form you have them, groups them into sections, and the board is live immediately. A TV, a tablet by the till, a screen in the window.

type it once · live immediately

02

A spotlight from your store

The Shopify Product Spotlight kit connects to your storefront from its address alone. Each weekday morning an agent picks a different product, puts it up with a line of its own, and reports how the last one did.

shopify · every weekday at 9am

03

A board you edit by asking

"Put the cold brew first." The board is a Sim, so you change it in the kit's own chat and the screen updates in place. No CMS, no designer, no reprint.

plain language · live on screen

loading the café

cam 01 · watching the board

03 · Engagement

Find out if anyone is actually looking.

Mount a spare phone beside the screen with its camera facing the room. While each product is up, the spotlight counts the people in view - so you learn which products earn the look, and which morning to put them up.

  • in view today61
  • best productbatch brew
  • best morningthursday

Illustrative numbers. Yours come from your own camera.

Build your own dashboard

Watch engagement as it happens and change the board from the same place. It is a Sim, so you shape it by asking - no dashboard software to buy or learn.

Bring your own hardware

Connect an old phone to SimSense and it becomes a sensor: a camera, a screen and a network connection you already own. Nothing else to buy.

Start from what others built

Menu boards, spotlights, polls and more, shared by the people who run them. Install one as it is, or remix it with your own twist.

Install the menu board in minutes.

Type your menu. Put it on a screen. Add the spotlight when you want the window to sell.

Install the menu board

Hardware

Runs on what you can buy today.

The board needs a screen. Watching the board needs a camera. Neither has to be special.

The screen

Anything with a browser

A TV on the wall, an iPad on the counter, a display in the window. If it opens a URL, it can hold a board.

Browse the showcase →

The camera

Arduino Uno Q + camera

The tinkerer's route - a board, a camera module, and full control over what runs at the edge.

The camera

AI cameras

Cameras with the compute already inside. Power one, point it at the board, and it starts reporting.

The shortcut

An old phone

Seriously. A phone on a stand is a camera and a screen at once. Get started in five minutes with hardware already in your drawer.

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A board that runs Linux and Arduino at once, plus a camera to point at the board.

Arduino UNO Q board

Arduino UNO Q (4GB)

$79.00

  • Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 + STM32U585
  • 4GB LPDDR4 · 32GB eMMC
  • Wi-Fi 5 · Bluetooth 5.1 · USB-C
  • Sold as a combo with the USB-C hub (8 in 1) and 45W supply, $95.99
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Anker PowerConf C200 webcam

Anker PowerConf C200 2K webcam

  • 2K capture with low-light correction
  • USB - plugs straight into the board
  • Clips to a shelf or sits on the counter
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Prices and stock are the vendors' - check before you order.

The model runs on the camera, so only the counts leave the room.

reCamera Gimbal 2002w

reCamera Gimbal 2002w (64GB)

$229.90

  • 360° yaw · 180° pitch motorised head
  • 1 TOPS @ INT8, YOLO models built in
  • 64GB storage · fully open source
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reCamera Pro

reCamera Pro 2GB

$299.90

  • 8MP starlight imaging
  • 3 TOPS NPU - vision, VLM and speech at the edge
  • Web UI, open HTTP APIs, event workflows
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Prices and stock are the vendors' - check before you order.