But I think that this forms just one model for how whiteboards can work.
There's still lots of value in being able to capture the current state of the board and send it out, which is something which frustratingly doesn't yet work as simply as it should.
I've even resorted to having a 'minutes taker' designated in a meeting, who's job it was to capture and annotate useful diagrams and work on the whiteboard and send them out to all the parties there.
Taking Minutes is something that's still hard to delegate to automation. I usually just do this myself when nobody else is taking minutes. Having a meeting without minutes is as bad as erasing the whiteboard immediately after drawing on it.
I like another comment's suggestion of a time-lapse.
* So we'd just need a webcam (or other camera implementation) ($5?)
* Stick this to the wall opposite the whiteboard? ($5 in tape?)
* Have a RasPi do the heavy lifting and email? ($35?)
Or maybe a cloud-backend for the video-to-GIF? (Imgur integration?) ($40?)
* Wifi setup seems like a solved problem by now. ($10)
I think I just made a product, who wants to help me develop/distribute it? Looks like $60 in hardware costs, who would pay $100 for one of these?
I like the basic idea, but a couple problems i see, Glare on the whiteboard from something like a window, and the board being obstructed by someone writing on it.
Bane,
We've been working on solving the exact problem you pointed out. We've made a whiteboard which lets you broadcast everything you write with a normal marker to a mobile device. It's not perfect yet but we'll get there soon.
Demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxmVtfF6pIo
But I think that this forms just one model for how whiteboards can work.
There's still lots of value in being able to capture the current state of the board and send it out, which is something which frustratingly doesn't yet work as simply as it should.
I've even resorted to having a 'minutes taker' designated in a meeting, who's job it was to capture and annotate useful diagrams and work on the whiteboard and send them out to all the parties there.