Genboard
AI-powered interactive display for nightlife venues — custom hardware built on Radxa SBC with addressable RGB, LTE/GPS/WiFi, battery system, thermal management, and a full-stack content platform. Designed, prototyped, and delivered from blank page to working PoC.
Nightlife venues needed more than a screen. They needed a product — something guests interact with, venues monetize, and brands fight to get on. Something that survives bottle service, drunk crowds, and 4 AM cleanup.
Genboard is an AI-powered interactive display platform designed for nightclubs, lounges, and live events. Guests generate custom visuals in real time. Venues control, curate, and monetize the content from a mobile app. The hardware glows, survives, and runs all night on battery.
genboard.com — we designed and built the complete PoC: custom hardware, embedded software, AI content pipeline, RGB control, mobile app, and cloud platform.
The product: AI-generated visuals, addressable RGB edge lighting, built for hands-on nightlife use.
Deployed at a venue in Atlanta — red RGB, event-specific content, zero setup time.The problem
Bottle service at a nightclub is a $500–$5,000 transaction. The presentation? A sparkler jammed into a Grey Goose bottle and a hand-written card that says “Happy Birthday Brittany.”
Venues wanted something better — a screen that shows personalized, on-brand content for each table. But commercial displays aren’t built for nightlife. They’re fragile, need outlets, have no content system, and look like office equipment in a dark room.
What the market needed was a purpose-built product: battery-powered, LED-lit, ruggedized, connected, and backed by software that makes content creation instant — not a design task.
That’s the product we built.
”Your crowd, your canvas. AI-powered visuals that light up any event.”— Genboard · genboard.com
What we built
Custom Hardware Platform
Radxa SBC at the core. Custom carrier board design integrating display driver, power management, RGB LED controller, LTE/GPS/WiFi modules, and thermal management — all in a sealed, venue-proof enclosure.
Battery & Power System
Custom LiPo battery pack with BMS. 8+ hours of continuous operation on a single charge. XT60 connectors for quick-swap. Integrated charging with thermal protection and cell balancing.
Addressable RGB LED System
Full-perimeter WS2812B LED strips with per-pixel color control. Custom firmware for animations, color matching, venue branding, and real-time sync with displayed content.
Thermal Management
Dual-fan active cooling with custom ducting. Thermal sensors on SBC, display driver, and battery. Automatic fan speed control. The unit runs all night in a packed club without throttling.
AI Content Platform
Cloud-based AI image generation pipeline. Guests or staff type a prompt — the platform generates on-brand visuals in seconds. Content moderation, curation, and monetization tools built in.
Mobile Control App
Venue operators manage everything from their phone: push content to displays, moderate AI generations, set RGB colors, schedule campaigns, and track engagement — all in real time.
Inside the machine
Inside the enclosure: dual cooling fans, Radxa SBC center, custom LiPo battery pack left, LTE modem and power management right. Every component selected and integrated by us.Radxa SBC
ARM-based single-board computer. Enough compute for local AI inference, display compositing, and network stack — all fanless at the chip level.
Custom LiPo Pack
Multi-cell lithium polymer with integrated BMS. 8+ hours runtime. Quick-swap XT60 connectors for venue turnaround.
Active Thermal
Dual fans with PWM speed control. Thermal sensors on CPU, display driver, and battery. No throttling at 35°C ambient.
LTE + GPS + WiFi
Always-connected via LTE. GPS for fleet tracking. WiFi for local content push. All modules custom-integrated onto the carrier board.
From breadboard to bottle service
First layout in a white ABS case. Radxa SBC, buck converters, fan, LiPo cells — proving the concept fits in a tablet-sized form factor. LED strips hand-soldered and routed around the display perimeter.
Black enclosure. Radxa mounted, RGB strips integrated, display tested. The unit boots, connects, and displays content — with blue LEDs confirming the addressable RGB pipeline works end to end.
Live in nightclubs across the US. Guests hold them up, take photos, generate AI content. The RGB draws eyes from across the room. The hardware survives everything nightlife throws at it.
The platform
Instant AI Content
Type a prompt, get a visual. The AI pipeline generates on-brand images in seconds — no designers needed. Built for speed at 2 AM when the floor is packed.
Centralized Control
One mobile app controls every display in the venue. Push content, set colors, moderate generations, schedule campaigns. Real-time fleet management for venue operators.
Revenue Engine
Genboard isn’t a cost center — it’s a revenue channel. Brand sponsorships, premium content packages, upsell opportunities on every table. The platform tracks it all.
Our role
null2.one designed and built the complete first-generation product — hardware, firmware, software, cloud platform, mobile app. From a blank page to a working product deployed in real venues.
Hardware Architecture
Component selection, SBC evaluation, carrier board design, enclosure engineering, thermal simulation, battery system design, RGB LED integration, connector strategy.
Embedded Software
Linux system image, display compositor, RGB LED firmware, LTE modem management, OTA update system, thermal control loop, power management daemon.
Cloud & AI Pipeline
AI content generation API, content moderation system, fleet management backend, real-time push to devices, analytics and engagement tracking.
Mobile Application
Venue operator app for content management, RGB control, device monitoring, campaign scheduling, and revenue tracking. iOS and Android.
Building a product that has to work in the real world?
We take hardware from concept to deployed product — architecture, engineering, software, manufacturing path. One team, one accountability chain.
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