[HN Gopher] Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects' altern... ___________________________________________________________________ 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] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-15 23:00 UTC)