[HN Gopher] Casio F91 smart watch reboot
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Casio F91 smart watch reboot
Author : rcarmo
Score : 122 points
Date : 2022-07-21 07:04 UTC (15 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (gitlab.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (gitlab.com)
| visviva wrote:
| Recommend the title be changed to "Casio F91 smart watch reboot".
| It's kind of nonsensical as-is.
| aeolis_mons wrote:
| I love my F91 (I'm wearing it right now!), and I love minimalist
| smartwatches. So this is right up my alley. I hope it keeps
| moving forward!
| LeifCarrotson wrote:
| > At this point (read more like a year ago) I am burnt out from
| this project and now I figured to open it up and hopefully more
| people can be involved.
|
| This is not moving forward, it looks like the author is just
| lofting it up as a resource for others to use as a starting
| point for similar projects.
| ncmncm wrote:
| It might be up to you, dear reader, to take it forward
| yourself.
|
| Deeply heartfelt thanks to the original author for taking it
| this far.
| typeofhuman wrote:
| Does anyone else get annoying jittery scroll experience on
| mobile?
|
| https://imgur.com/Dn6vQiY
| joecool1029 wrote:
| Nope, works fine here on current webview and firefox nightly.
| shriphani wrote:
| Amazing project! Great tribute to one of the greatest timepieces
| ever made.
| malkia wrote:
| That looks beautiful!
| walrus01 wrote:
| The Casio F91, as approved by Osama Bin Laden himself:
|
| https://www.google.com/search?q=bin+laden+casio+F91&client=f...
| [deleted]
| ncmncm wrote:
| Favored trigger mechanism for IEDs?
| walrus01 wrote:
| Well I sure wouldn't recommend it as an IUD
| ncmncm wrote:
| Hmm, might work better than many items actually used.
| GekkePrutser wrote:
| Wow. There is another project doing a similar thing, but they
| don't have bluetooth nor an OLED display (they reuse the same
| display) so it's not nearly as useful in daily life, though still
| very impressive work nonetheless.
|
| But this is really amazing work. I hope you find some
| collaborators to continue!!
|
| I recently got an F-105W which I had when I was a teen (which is
| basically the F-91 but with a cool glowy EL backlight). And one
| thing that really surprised me how small that thing is. It seemed
| bigger at the time.
|
| I'm really amazed how much technology this project managed to fit
| in that tiny case. Battery, OLED, bluetooth.. Just wow.
|
| I would pay for this, I was thinking of buying that other project
| on crowdsupply but without BT connectivity I just don't really
| have any use for it.
| digdugdirk wrote:
| Very interesting. One thing I've pondered - this project contains
| various pieces of off the shelf hardware, and some custom 3D CAD
| files. These don't seem to fit as neatly into the way Git
| functions. Is there/has there been any attempts to replicate Git
| with Bill of Materials or 3D CAD data?
| blamazon wrote:
| There are many softwares attempting to solve this problem.
| Airplanes, bridges, cars, robots, they are catalogued in these
| systems. They tend to fall under the "Product Lifecycle
| Management" or 'PLM' name of softwares. Or also "Product Data
| Management"/'PDM'. Tends to be enterprisey.
| digdugdirk wrote:
| I've used those systems previously. Sadly, none seems to be
| functional on a distributed scale like Git functions for
| codebases.
| blamazon wrote:
| Ah, I misread the framing of your question. We are in the
| same boat, I have had the misfortune of using those systems
| as well.
| vok wrote:
| There's an active F-91W watch hacking project (with somewhat
| different goals) here:
|
| https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-wa...
| Melatonic wrote:
| Awesome! Although I am personally a fan of the japan only F84
| myself
| cyberpunk wrote:
| W-202 here. Can't live without the countdown timer :)
| systemvoltage wrote:
| Very cool. I'd prefer Sharp's memory display which uses power
| like ePaper display, but looks and works exactly like a
| traditional LCD with high refresh rates. And bluetooth/etc is not
| a feature, but a bug IMO; goes against the philosophy of F91.
| ncmncm wrote:
| Bluetooth is a good mechanism for configuration, even if it is
| wholly turned off during normal operation.
|
| Forcing all setup to go through the needle's eye of a couple of
| buttons is profoundly limiting, and a wired connection would
| violate F91 design esthetic more.
|
| A transparent back for the watch, and optical components, could
| open biomedical opportunities. There, Bluetooth readout of
| logged data would be useful.
| systemvoltage wrote:
| The nice thing is that it is open source, I could just
| disable radios all together and save batt: https://gitlab.com
| /_Pegor/kepler_fw/-/blob/master/Firmware/f...
| room505 wrote:
| I wonder if an eink display would work okay. Then it would last a
| month!
| Melatonic wrote:
| Or one of those new screens (MIP I think?) that may end up
| being what eink always wanted to be but with better refresh
| chem83 wrote:
| MIP as in memory-in-pixel? Like the Sharp memory displays/LCD
| used on the Panic Playdate, for example?
| https://www.adafruit.com/product/4694
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