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Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects' alternate motherboard and firmware
- CobaltFire 4y agoProjects 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 4y agoSame: 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.
- Graziano_M 4y agoMotherboard 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 https://github.com/travisgoodspeed/goodwatch
- jgrahamc 4y agoThere’s the small sensor board plugged into it and the LCD board that attaches to it also.
- Graziano_M 4y agodoh!
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- ComputerGuru 4y agoThe 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!
- ornornor 4y agoPretty cool!
- dtx1 4y agoI 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
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- bherms 4y agoI 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 4y agoSometime words can mean multiple things. Pimp to mean cool as been established for atleast a few decades at this point.
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- blamazon 4y agoDoesn'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 4y agoIt’s also quite dated slang. Pimp My Ride is decades old now.
- tomcam 4y agoIt was dated back then. "Pimping" used like that goes back to the 70s. I was there.
- singingfish 4y agoI agree. I use the word “retard” (as in ‘Tony Abbott was the retard we had to have’) from time to time for similar reasons.
- quijoteuniv 4y agoThis is my dream! ( when I was 10 years old ) Hope more sensors become available
- wzdd 4y agoWhat 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 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 4y agoThe 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 4y agoHonestly 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 4y agoThanks 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.
- adamweld 4y agopogo pins?
- iancmceachern 4y agoIt's this, or similar. This is how fitbit, garmin,etc do it.
- ComputerGuru 4y agoThe web emulator has to be the best part of the project. It makes debugging and testing so much easier!
- thot_experiment 4y agoI 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 https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto
- p1mrx 4y agoHow would you automatically timesync this watch? Ideally something easier than clamping actuators to the buttons.
- kirenida 4y agoOn a related note, check out how "syncing" is done on a watch from the opposite side of the price spectrum: https://youtu.be/tybp1Vi0AxY?t=1708 https://youtu.be/tybp1Vi0AxY?t=1708
- vonwoodson 4y agoThe hackability of the Casio watch has earned the F-91W the title of “the sign of al-Qaida” because they are used to make IEDs [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-casio-wristwatch-alqaida https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-fil...] So, you know, do what you will with that information. Unless it’s make bombs. Don’t make bombs.
- __mharrison__ 4y agoI have an F-91W that I've modded ... by filling it up with olive oil with the purpose of making it water resistant to 1500?! meters. It is so cheap that I can wear it and not worry about destroying it. I haven't seen this mod before. I'd be all over it if it offered a Python interface.
- jiqiren 4y agoWhy olive oil? Doesn’t that change the color slightly? Wouldn’t mineral or silicon oil work just as well without a color shift?
- ornornor 4y agoYou can’t flavor your emergency pizza or pasta with these.
- __mharrison__ 4y agoI didn't have any mineral oil handy. It probably changed the color but it is already LED greenish.