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It seems you can actually buy these things for single-digit thousands of dollars! https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14830 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/148
by drewm1980 5y ago
It seems you can actually buy these things for single-digit thousands of dollars!
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14830 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14830
https://www.mouser.be/ProductDetail/Microchip-Technology/090-02984-003?qs=sGAEpiMZZMug%252BNZZT2EIM2olcQZAIVOWsxjvC8CkMZM%3D https://www.mouser.be/ProductDetail/Microchip-Technology/090...
That puts them in the price range of handmade swiss mechanical wristwatches.
Anyone walking around with one strapped to their wrist yet?
- pkaye 5y agoHigh power consumption though at 5 watts and even more at warmup.
- drewm1980 5y agoKeeping it charged and synchronized would have to be part of the art project / status symbol. It would only take one rich person with a genuine interest in timekeeping technology to make this happen. Their servants could bring them a steady stream of batteries... or carry a power cord behind them like a wedding gown.
- fsh 5y agoThe CSAC is specified for operation at < 120 mW (< 140 mW at warmup) so one could in principle build a novelty watch with it. However, a standard quartz movement with daily sync to GPS would outperform it at a thousand times lower power consumption.
- dmytroi 5y agoRichard Hoptroff was prototyping the idea of a wrist watch [1], though the company pivoted into networking equipment later on. - [1] https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/richard-hoptroffs-atomic-watch-prototype-combines https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/richard-hoptroffs-atomic-w...