Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W • Hacker News Board

Wow, apart from obviously cool project I'm super impressed with the minimalist website design, aesthetics, effort put in the video to match the aesthetics and all without any JS.

Either this is the first time I'm visiting this site or I don't remember; But I wonder how they are managing to compete with Node.JS in the search engines with that name. Google doesn't respect even N-O-D-E, where as DDG brings up the site as first result for N-O-D-E. Not to mention there's another famous Youtube channel by the name Node by Corridor Crew.

They seem to sell some items based on their design along with the stuff they make at their store of the same name, I would like to know how they reach out to their audience from any regular subscriber of their work.

Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by kingosticks » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

To me, the name of this sounded like it was going to be squeezing some kind of running/sports watch functionality into a Casio F91W (and ideally GPS!). But it's not that, it turns out (a few paragraphs later) that it's adding NFC for close-range data sharing and some other cool mods. Which makes more sense considering how small the watch is.

Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by wil421 » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 1:39 PM UTC

Neat mod. I like the nod to Johnny Mnemonic.

The mod could be used by spies to authenticate each other on a data drop. NFC powers the device and validates the key is correct. Once the two users are validated the data is exchanged and the data runner exfiltrates the payload.

Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by victorbojica » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #4

Wow, apart from obviously cool project I'm super impressed with the minimalist website design, aesthetics, effort put in the video to match the aesthetics and all without any JS. Either this is the first time I'm visiting this site or I don't remember; But I wonder how they are managing to compete with Node.JS in the search engines with that name. Google doesn't respect even N-O-D-E, where as DDG brings up the site a…

Found this gem a few weeks ago and was also completely blown away. Especially the YouTube videos.

What i'm thinking is that popularity and SEO issues are not really a concern since it looks like a very closed community type of thing.

Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by mauricio » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 1:45 PM UTC

They also have a really cool zine that's loaded with 90s hacker culture. https://n-o-d-e.net/zine/index.html

Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by Abishek_Muthian » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 1:45 PM UTC

victorbojica wrote: post #7

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #4

Wow, apart from obviously cool project I'm super impressed with the minimalist website design, aesthetics, effort put in the video to match the aesthetics and all without any JS. Either this is the first time I'm visiting this site or I don't remember; But I wonder how they are managing to compete with Node.JS in the search engines with that name. Google doesn't respect even N-O-D-E, where as DDG brings up the site a…

Found this gem a few weeks ago and was also completely blown away. Especially the YouTube videos. What i'm thinking is that popularity and SEO issues are not really a concern since it looks like a very closed community type of thing.

>Especially the YouTube videos.

Couldn't find the channel, what's the name?

Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by netsharc » Tue, Jul 28, 2020, 1:45 PM UTC

Please add a few bullet points on the top of the page, it takes way too long to figure out what functionality you added, when I open the page all I can see is you starting with "It's a mod of this model watch" and then you talk about how it looks now, and how you put it together...