[HN Gopher] Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects' altern...
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Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects' alternate motherboard
and firmware
Author : jgrahamc
Score : 220 points
Date : 2022-10-15 13:27 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.jgc.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.jgc.org)
| CobaltFire wrote:
| Projects like this, where the community has adopted something so
| thoroughly and so begins making things for it that are so fully
| developed, are amazing to me. I love it.
|
| The Thinkpad replacement motherboards fall into a similar
| category.
| csdvrx wrote:
| Same: I believe that after a few iterations, the form can come
| very close to perfection (Casio watch, Thinkpad keyboard) or at
| least become familiar enough that we may feel sadness if we
| have to give it up.
|
| Replacing the internals by better ones let you keep the objects
| you love, increase their features and reduces waste.
| butokai wrote:
| I wonder if anybody has ever thought about some similar
| project for e.g. the Nokia 3310 or the iPod
| Jtsummers wrote:
| https://hackaday.com/category/ipod-hacks/
|
| Lots of entries there.
| Graziano_M wrote:
| Motherboard is sort of a misnomer. There are no other boards
| being plugged into it. That said, it's a pretty cool project.
| Nothing beats the good watch[1], though.
|
| [1]: https://github.com/travisgoodspeed/goodwatch
| jgrahamc wrote:
| There's the small sensor board plugged into it and the LCD
| board that attaches to it also.
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| The post demonstrates the temperature sensor as being one (of
| many?) modular components that can be plugged in, actually.
|
| Though I still agree that does not make a motherboard!
| [deleted]
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| The web emulator has to be the best part of the project. It makes
| debugging and testing so much easier!
| thot_experiment wrote:
| I really wish I could buy one of these without a billion year
| waitlist. I really want to make a magnetometer daughter board so
| I can have a mode which displays my magnetic heading.
|
| I love the new colorways casio recently came out with, I had the
| plain black for years but now I got myself a pink one as well.
| The only wrist watch worn by both Obama and Osama!
|
| EDIT: oh wow, googling this a bit there's a _different_ project
| for a replacement motherboard that already has a compass! I guess
| I might as well just build one myself. [0]
|
| [0] https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto
| quijoteuniv wrote:
| This is my dream! ( when I was 10 years old ) Hope more sensors
| become available
| ornornor wrote:
| Pretty cool!
| p1mrx wrote:
| How would you automatically timesync this watch? Ideally
| something easier than clamping actuators to the buttons.
| bherms wrote:
| I love stuff like this... I'd also like to get away from using
| the term "pimp" to mean to make something cooler. Pimps take
| advantage of and often force people into sexual slavery. Nothing
| about that should be glorified and turned into a colloquial term
| to mean something positive.
| dragonmost wrote:
| Sometime words can mean multiple things. Pimp to mean cool as
| been established for atleast a few decades at this point.
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| blamazon wrote:
| Doesn't colloqializing it defang the term? Why should the word
| be gatekept within the harsh domain it came from rather than
| allowed to transcend alongside culture? Earnest questions, I
| don't think about this stuff much.
| Apocryphon wrote:
| It's also quite dated slang. Pimp My Ride is decades old now.
| tomcam wrote:
| It was dated back then. "Pimping" used like that goes back
| to the 70s. I was there.
| singingfish wrote:
| I agree. I use the word "retard" (as in 'Tony Abbott was the
| retard we had to have') from time to time for similar
| reasons.
| tomcam wrote:
| As the parent of a "severely retarded" (quoted from the
| first IEP report in 2009) child, I say who the hell cares
| if you use that word. I have to admit I find it kind of
| funny and use it all the time.
|
| Commence downvoting, retards.
| dtx1 wrote:
| I like Casio watches but i feel there's lots oft Innovation they
| leave in the table. Especially the higher end square watches are
| sometimes needlessly incomplete
| hiyer wrote:
| True - I wish they had a higher end watch with a vibrating
| alarm, but no luck so far.
| bayindirh wrote:
| G-Shock series had a model with vibration IIRC.
|
| Update: Yes. It's GD350.
| wzdd wrote:
| What would be the most power-efficient way to get data or code
| into something like this without having to take the back off or
| add a port? Maybe a light sensor, like the old Timex watches?
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink
|
| I guess you could do it with a peltier element and the
| temperature sensor, if you had a lot of time. :)
| Rebelgecko wrote:
| The watch has buttons, right? You could have a "data upload"
| screen that interprets them as 1s and 0s. I also wonder if you
| could add Bluetooth to the watch. That might hurt battery life,
| but maybe not too badly if it's toggleable?
| Anunayj wrote:
| Honestly I feel like this is the most practical way,
| Bluetooth modules are readily available in that form factor,
| just turn it on only after a certain key press on the watch
| (call it upload mode).
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| Thanks for sharing the Timex link! I have a soft spot for
| hybrid analog-digital tech like that but I think a Bluetooth
| module (if you can figure out the antenna situation) only
| turned on at a certain watch face (plus a sequence of key
| presses) is probably the best compromise and shouldn't be too
| draining if it's fully powered down otherwise.
|
| Other radio tech might be an even better option would need a
| transceiver on the PC side as well, so might not be worth it
| depending on how often you would be using this feature.
| ranger207 wrote:
| In a similar vein, the developer of the Anduril open source
| flashlight firmware[0][1] once investigated loading settings
| via light flashed from the phone using the flashlight's LEDs as
| photodiodes
|
| [0] https://code.launchpad.net/~toykeeper/flashlight-
| firmware/an... [1] UI diagram:
| https://budgetlightforum.com/node/76941
| awiesenhofer wrote:
| What about the back BEING the port? With something like the
| 1-wire protocol it should be possible, only activate it with
| say a special button combination to save on battery.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire
| matja wrote:
| A microphone and https://github.com/kamalmostafa/minimodem ?
| adamweld wrote:
| pogo pins?
| [deleted]
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