I am sooo jealous of this. What an amazing project. Yes it would be front page on Hackaday but pleased it appeared here because HN is all about (IMHO) inventive and creative technology and its possibilities and applications. These sort of projects illuminate for the rest of us on what might be possible. Has inspired me to break open the boxes of parts i have and build something that works (useful or not remains to be seen), just to explore the possible. By day i work on Enterprise software, but ive had more inspiration moments when working on IoT wireless stuff at home than ever had in meetings, workgroups, or sitting in an office.<p>To the author and creator, a huge thank you for the inspiration, education. Like one other poster mentioned i too would like a quick donate button for this. I do use for other projects because i think its important to acknowledge people who make stuff like this. Whether is code or hardware, or sometimes even just ideas on KS, give a few bucks if you can to share the fun and inspiration and reward others.
This is a bit orthogonal, but if you're interested in the watch form factor, TI makes a really neat watch dev board for the MSP430 that has a built-in accelerometer and support for wireless sensors.<p><a href="http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos" rel="nofollow">http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos</a>
This is one of those articles/projects where I really miss an established universal web-wide donation system. I just want to click a button on that page and send the author a few bucks as a Thank You for doing amazing things.<p>(And no, a Paypal link is not an answer to this problem)
> It also has a hex editor, because no proper lady or gentleman should be caught in public without one on the wrist.<p>I'll hold this thought dear for the rest of my life, thanks for sharing this amazing project.
I really wish the Oscilloscope Watch had made it through the hassle of production:<p><a href="http://www.gabotronics.com/oscilloscopes/oscilloscope-watch.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.gabotronics.com/oscilloscopes/oscilloscope-watch....</a><p>(Disclaimer: I'm one of the disappointed backers of his kickstarter campaign, which went nowhere...)<p>If there were another attempt at making a watch like this one, I'd definitely be a backer. I think this is really an ideal time for someone to start up an open-source, powerful watch platform ..
In case anyone loves this type of thing but hasn’t heard of PoC||GTFO, I encourage you to take a look: <a href="https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/" rel="nofollow">https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/</a>
At first I thought this was a firmware mod for those calculator watches, but it's a new circuit board. Comparable in power to those TI msp430 developer watches, but with better UI possibilities.
See also <a href="https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto</a> , a replacement board for the ubiquitous Casio F-91W, also using a TI microcontroller.
Awesome project. I'm surprised we don't see more msp430-based watch projects. Bonus points for ham radio functionality. I'd be all over this if I didn't hate wearing a watch.
Does anyone know what the apparently pocket-sized notebook computer is? The one in the picture about halfway through the post, with the watches draped over it.
> It has ~5 years of battery life, knows days of the week for the next two thousand years, and has a handy RPN calculator.<p>I wonder why two thousand years? All the common day of the week algorithms should work as long as the current leap year pattern [1] continues.<p>[1] (year % 4 == 0) && ((year % 100 != 0) || (year % 400 == 0)
That's pretty cool,
I plan to do something similar but with a cheap smartwatch, a lot o Chinese smartwatch are based on the same soc family, and usualy are pretty hackable.
>What if you’re stuck in an hour-long SCRUM meeting and need to reverse engineer your watch’s firmware with pen and paper to retain your own sanity?”<p>The worst of the worst meetings.