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Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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Post by OJFord »

StavrosK wrote: post #49

What a great project! I love how much attention to detail he put in. Fantastic, this is exactly the kind of thing I love studying and working on myself. Sidenote, I'm a bit disappointed that people use imgur to showcase their projects, as I don't think it's very good for that. I built https://www.makerfol.io/ for this exact purpose but people seem to still prefer imgur for some reason, and I'm not sure why :/

> people seem to still prefer imgur for some reason, and I'm not sure why :/

To be brutally honest: because it's more likely to still be there in x years, for any value of x.

Of course if you _really_ care, you host it yourself, and then it exists for as long as you care. Imgur's an easy happy middleground though, so people use it.

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

#92

Post by closetohome »

jordan_clark wrote: post #12

I googled and added it up (just out of curiosity) using the BOM, and total cost was ~$88USD (not counting shipping) Also, the OS is FreeRTOS (Open sourced by AWS/Amazon in '17) if anyone is interested

Or like $6800 depending on how you value your time.

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

#93

Post by frenchy »

bluGill wrote: post #71
xena wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Women's clothes don't have pockets. Always having an active LTE modem strapped to my wrist makes me feel safer. It is easy to be separated from my phone because I don't have pockets.

Why do women put up with that?

That's a good question. This comes up every-now-and-then with my wife. She's usually says that pockets don't really matter, and then I point out that I have to carry her goods in my pockets.

I suspect it's something really subtle along these lines: Beautiful women can often get by being useless, so women in general acrew certain trappings of uselessness so as to associate themselves with beauty.

It's sort of like men and commuter pickup trucks (trucks are associated with hard-working men, so men buy trucks and drive them around town, even though they have no hard work to do).

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

#94

Post by echlebek »

opencl wrote: post #42
scoutt wrote: post #23

The DA14683 is fantastic. I played a bit with an eval. board and it's really good for it's price vs. features (~$3 for 250 pcs. at Mouser). But soon the idea of releasing code for it as Open Source faded away, since you need to sign an SLA ( https://support.dialog-semiconductor.com/connectivity/reques... ), that limits the way source code based on their in SDK is released (only to your customer, in an only “need to k…

Probably by ignoring the license.

Pretty reasonable way to solve this problem really. Are they really going to bring the hammer down on a hobbyist?

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

#95

Post by frenchy »

StavrosK wrote: post #49

What a great project! I love how much attention to detail he put in. Fantastic, this is exactly the kind of thing I love studying and working on myself. Sidenote, I'm a bit disappointed that people use imgur to showcase their projects, as I don't think it's very good for that. I built https://www.makerfol.io/ for this exact purpose but people seem to still prefer imgur for some reason, and I'm not sure why :/

FYI, the gravatar images don't load on my browser because I have Firefox's content blocker enabled. The alt-text "The user's avatar" is showing in a bunch of places, and on the project list it overlaps with the project titles. I'd recommend:

* Replacing "The user's avatar" at the top with the user's name. * On the project list, just setting the alt-text to "".

Otherwise: nice site.

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

#96

Post by js2 »

njepa wrote: post #79
js2 wrote: post #64

We haven’t solved homelessness, poverty, cancer, or war. We don’t have self-piloted flying cars. But for about $90 in parts, one person can design, manufacture, and build their own bespoke smart watch. Humans have made truly remarkable progress in some very specific ways.

While I can appreciate the sentiment, the reason we can do things like this is because of all the research and development that went into things like integrated circuits, manufacturing and CAD. This is more the classic hacker thing, were you use something larger and serious for you own purposes. Not making something primarily for serving ads, or whatnot. This technology can very well, and was to a large extent made t…

> all the research and development that went into things like integrated circuits, manufacturing and CAD

It's more than just that though. Centuries of incremental knowledge passing from one generation to the next. A global economy that allows chips manufactured in China to be shipped to American for peanuts. All the collaborative effort that went into writing an OS that's available for anyone to use free of charge. That someone is able to be so specialized, they can do this in their leisure time.

It is an incredible amount of human cooperation and achievement over thousands of years. I suppose you could say that about many things today, but for whatever reason, this watch put me in a bit of a philosophical mood.

I guess: humans collaborating achieve great things; we should do more of that.

(You know what else reliably gets me marveling about humanity? Attending a symphony orchestra performance.)

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

#97

Post by js2 »

freehunter wrote: post #87
jonatron wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Homeless, poverty, cancer, or war are all people problems, and people are complicated. We do have flying cars but they're not very good at flying or driving.

The “we don’t have flying cars” argument always strikes me as begging for something to complain about. We could easily have flying cars if there was literally one reason to have a flying car. There is not a single reason to have a flying car, so no one has put in the time to make one because no one would buy it because it’s pointless.

I don't actually want flying cars. It's a metaphor for "how we imagine some problem of today will be solved in the future."

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

#98

Post by StavrosK »

frenchy wrote: post #95
StavrosK wrote: post #49

What a great project! I love how much attention to detail he put in. Fantastic, this is exactly the kind of thing I love studying and working on myself. Sidenote, I'm a bit disappointed that people use imgur to showcase their projects, as I don't think it's very good for that. I built https://www.makerfol.io/ for this exact purpose but people seem to still prefer imgur for some reason, and I'm not sure why :/

FYI, the gravatar images don't load on my browser because I have Firefox's content blocker enabled. The alt-text "The user's avatar" is showing in a bunch of places, and on the project list it overlaps with the project titles. I'd recommend: * Replacing "The user's avatar" at the top with the user's name. * On the project list, just setting the alt-text to "". Otherwise: nice site.

Ah, thank you, but removing the alt-text would be bad for accessibility. It is meant for visually impaired people, after all. Maybe setting the title would fix this, I'll look into it, thank you!

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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Post by coldtea »

bluGill wrote: post #71
xena wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Women's clothes don't have pockets. Always having an active LTE modem strapped to my wrist makes me feel safer. It is easy to be separated from my phone because I don't have pockets.

Why do women put up with that?

Because they like the look. If the shop around, they can get all kinds of women's clothes (including shirts and t-shirts) with pockets, but they wont.

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

#100

Post by jordan_clark »

closetohome wrote: post #92
jordan_clark wrote: post #12

I googled and added it up (just out of curiosity) using the BOM, and total cost was ~$88USD (not counting shipping) Also, the OS is FreeRTOS (Open sourced by AWS/Amazon in '17) if anyone is interested

Or like $6800 depending on how you value your time.

Very true
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