Help Shape the AirGradient Go by Trying Our New Simulator

Just a few weeks ago, we announced our upcoming monitor - the AirGradient Go - a portable air quality monitor designed to be carried with you wherever you go. Since that initial announcement, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to build what we believe will be one of the most uncompromised portable air quality monitors on the market.

Until now, our primary focus has been on the hardware. We’ve finalised the overall form factor, settled on the core components, and defined the basic specifications of the device. With the mould-maker now working on the first production moulds, we didn’t want development to stall while the physical hardware catches up.

So we turned our attention to the firmware - or rather, Achim did, with the help of his trusty AI companion.

Today, we’re excited to share another milestone in the AirGradient Go development journey: the first working iteration of the device firmware. Rather than simply talking about it, we went one step further and built a simulator that allows anyone to explore and interact with the AirGradient Go interface firsthand.

The AirGradient Go Simulator

To explore the first iteration of the AirGradient Go firmware, you can try the simulator yourself here (best used on desktop). The simulator mirrors the current firmware logic and user interface, giving you a realistic sense of how the AirGradient Go will behave as a standalone device.

The AirGradient Go uses three physical, tactile buttons. Two buttons are used to scroll through screens and menu options, while the third acts as a menu and select button. This button layout is already fixed, as the moulds for the enclosure are now being produced.

Using the simulator is straightforward. You can cycle through the available screens, enter the menu, and adjust settings in much the same way you would on the physical device. While the simulator naturally can’t replicate the feel of the buttons or the E-ink display itself, it does provide an accurate representation of the navigation structure, screen layout, and information density we’re currently working with.

This simulator represents an early firmware iteration, but it’s already close enough to the real experience that we’d love your feedback before the hardware is finalised.

We’d Love Your Feedback

While we’re happy with this first firmware iteration, it’s very much a work in progress and we’d really like to build it with the community rather than behind closed doors. The simulator is an opportunity to gather early feedback while there’s still plenty of room to improve and refine the experience.

We’re particularly interested in your thoughts on a few areas, though we’re very open to any feedback or suggestions you may have:

• Information density and layout
  With limited screen space and resolution on the E-ink display, should air pressure and altitude be shown on every screen, or would it be more useful to use that space to display minimum and maximum values for the graph instead?
• On-device settings
  Since the AirGradient Go is designed to be fully standalone (with optional pairing to the AirGradient app), are there any settings you feel are essential to have directly on the device that are currently missing?
• Graph time range
  What time period would you most like to see displayed in the graph? The past hour, six hours, or something else entirely?

If you notice anything that feels unclear, unnecessary, or could be done better - even outside these areas - we’d really appreciate hearing about it. Please feel free to comment either in the comments section of this post, or you can privately submit feedback here.

Stay Up to Date

If you’d like to follow the development of the AirGradient Go more closely, you can also sign up using the form here. This will allow us to keep you updated as development progresses, share future milestones, and invite you to test upcoming firmware iterations.

As always, thank you for helping us build better air quality tools - your input is directly shaping what we create.