Comment by GekkePrutser | Hacker News Reader

Comment by GekkePrutser | Hacker News Reader

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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.

I assume you're referring to the Pluto watch? https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto-fw

I suspect they're referring to the more recent Sensor Watch: https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-wa...

Quick review: I have one of the early units and I've really enjoyed using it. It's totally hackable, well documented, and I fully anticipate using mine for the next decade or longer. It's far from a smartwatch - it's more like you're sitting in on the Casio product meeting where they wrote the original F-91W specs. The year-scale battery life remains, but it comes with the ability to fully customize the watch behavior. For me, that meant adding sunrise/sunset and moon phase faces. I might build a quick-timezone switcher in the future.

It is indeed very nice, I would just really want some kind of wireless connectivity for any of the usecases I could come up with :) Otherwise I'd have bought one for sure.

No, the other one on crowdsupply that the other person below was talking about. I didn't link to it as it was already mentioned in other places in this thread as well.

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