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Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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Post by def_true_false »

iscrewyou wrote: post #73
dan1234 wrote: post #8

Here’s the Reddit thread with more feedback from the creator[0]. Amazingly gets a week between charges[1] [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/bivyok/i_made_a_smartw... [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/bivyok/i_made_a_smartw...

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Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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undefined1 wrote: post #82
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.

Although unfortunately not solved, we've made great strides in regards to child mortality, extreme poverty, war, violence, health, freedom, literacy... If you could choose any point in human history to be born, you'd be best off choosing today. https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Max-Roser-three-facts... https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit...

A book that echoes the sentiment: https://www.amazon.com/Enlightenment-Now-Science-Humanism-Pr...

It's an amazing read as well, much like Pinker's other works.

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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Post by chc4 »

SnowingXIV wrote: post #28

This is really cool and as a software guy the electrical engineering component is a huge black box to me. Circuit boards all connected up and getting a physical device to handle lithium ion batteries to properly charge and not blow up is beautiful. He does a great job with pictures, videos, and giving detail at both a high level and semi-in-depth explanations really made it shine. Is there anyone that does similar ty…

Some people at CERN made a smartwatch for a colleague's retirement a number of years ago. Their entire project is FOSS, complete with a talk at FOSDEM 2015. It's not quite a tutorial or walk through, might be interesting for you.

https://www.ohwr.org/project/f-watch/wikis/Home

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

iscrewyou wrote: post #73
dan1234 wrote: post #8

Here’s the Reddit thread with more feedback from the creator[0]. Amazingly gets a week between charges[1] [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/bivyok/i_made_a_smartw... [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/bivyok/i_made_a_smartw...

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Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

jonatron wrote: post #80
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.

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.

I agree but would also add that poverty is sort of a moving goal post, so I don't know if it will ever be completely eradicated.

Re: I made a smart watch from scratch

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ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #104
iscrewyou wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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