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Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by raffael_de »

I really like my F91W case with a Sensor Watch Pro board and accelerometer sensor.

My favorite features:

- Piezo alarm is much louder.

- Countdown time can be incremented by tapping the watch.

- LED color can be changed by adjusting RGB values.

- It features sunrise/-set and moon phase info/calendar.

- I changed the week day names to German abbreviations.

- There are lots of intriguing watch faces that you can compile into your firmware.

Sadly, the project is in some disarray as the originator apparently lost interest and the community isn't moving uniformly. Would love to see such a project for Casio with 4 buttons as this would allow for a lot more interesting use cases ... the pinnacle would be a board for their calculator watches. That would be rad.

The Sensor Watch forum on Discord is pretty active.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-wa...

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by raffael_de »

Sidnicious wrote: post #82
__fst__ wrote: post #45

For anyone interested in modding the F-91W there's also The Ollee Watch, a replacement PCB which adds even more "smart" features. https://www.olleewatch.com/

Sensor Watch is the non-phone-connected OG: https://www.sensorwatch.net

not just OG ... also OSS as opposed to Ollee

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by woodson »

yegle wrote: post #90

Upon seeing "Bluetooth" and "Daily steps" I'd assume this is another watch that requires daily charging, but wow 2y battery w/ CR2016!

Yes, it seems to be a repackaging of the ABL-100WE and has a long battery life. Unfortunately, their app is horrible, only works after signing up for an account, and only works if given every tracking permission possible to vacuum the maximum amount of data to the cloud.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by [deleted] »

maybe_pablo wrote: post #85
ncruces wrote: post #28

Right when I started building a custom F-91W with/for my kids based on sensor watch: https://github.com/joeycastillo/second-movement I'll take some solace in mine supporting lots more alarms (beep when school recess ends) and a bunch of geeky stuff like sunrise, moon phases, tides, and stuff.

The sensor watch is actually awesome, if only for turning a cheap casio into a super-accurate quartz watch with temperature compensation.

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Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by woodson »

ncruces wrote: post #81
oliwarner wrote: post #70

How are they getting 2 years on a CR2016? Is that with step tracking and Bluetooth disabled?

Bluetooth is watch initiated, and only turns on 4 times a day (or when the user explicitly requests it with a button press). The pedometer is probably a special chip. You should compare this with the F-91W that gets 7 years on the same battery, and hobbyist hardware mods that get years out of the same battery running ARM chips.

To be fair, the hobbyist hardware mod variants that do step tracking only last for days, not years AFAIK.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by slater »

pjmlp wrote: post #61
speak_plainly wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those buttons are the menu. The idea of menus on watches is a modern ux extravagance. I don’t have the satisfying answer as to why they dedicated a button to 12/24 hour time but my guess is that it’s simply a cool digital feature and stands out against the limitations of analog watches.

To add to it, I always kept the manuals around, because remembering the key press sequences was akin to doing combos in arcade fighting games. A few months without doing them, and it was hopeless trying to remember how to do them again.

I have a 6.30AM alarm on my FW-91, and I'm too lazy to figure out how to switch it off.

15 beeps, btw, till it turns itself off for the day.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by hknceykbx »

teachrdan wrote: post #102
Papazsazsa wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not quite as simple as "if you have one of these you're a terrorist" of course; it's one indicator based on long-standing patterns, but never used as sole proof. AQ training/bomb-making manuals from the 1990s–2000s recommend cheap, reliable digital watches like this as timers for IEDs as they're extremely inexpensive and widely available worldwide, durable, water resistant, and easy to modify as delay timers. Of…

> Ramzi Yousef (Philippine Airlines Flight 434) and Ahmed Ressam (the 'Millennium Bomber') both had them. This is like a statistics 101 question. Google says that Casio has sold over 100M F-91W's since 1989. Let's round down to an average of 2.5M a year, or 25M over the 10 peak years of the global war on terror (GWOT). You named two terrorists who wore them. Let's say that's an understatement by 200X. Some quick math…

Well, your argument might be valid but calculation of course has nothing remotely to do with truth. If we’re talking about the US, person has to be in the US/travel to US. That dramatically cuts down the amount from 25M. Second - the person has to be.. how do I put it, non white? Probably muslim. That also cuts it down by far. I can believe that people who fall in these two categories might have some subcultural groups. And in most of them they might just.. not wear Casio watches. It’s not like probability of wearing/not wearing Casio watches is equally likely for every person on earth. They have their target groups.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by woodson »

taviso wrote: post #50

I have one of these, there is an open source project called gshock_api that supports it. I think that makes it a much more interesting device. I don't use the app, I tag alarms in remind, and sync them from cron - works great. https://github.com/izivkov/gshock_api The full lifelog (what Casio calls the steps and other metrics) is an opaque binary blob, but we mostly understand it now, so you can access that too. http…

This is great, as is the CasioGShockSmartSync Android app. I wish there was an iOS app, as the official app is horrible, only works after signing up for an account, and only works if given every tracking permission possible to vacuum the maximum amount of data to the cloud.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by themadturk »

bestouff wrote: post #135
RoadieRoller wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my country, 30-40 years back, people who needed a watch were those ones who travel regularly. And travel was mostly using public transport, trains and planes. Most or all of it operated using a 24h time. That button was very useful. Compare that to the mute/silence/DND physical button in iPhones today. Also people who worked in confined spaces who wouldn’t know if it was day or night outside after a days job. My f…

OK, but who would use 12h time ? I never understood, this seems so backwards.

How about someone who was raised on 12h time and has used it for 70 years? Sure, the math to convert is pretty easy, but why?

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by Retr0id »

Hmmmmmmmm. I've always been a fan of the classic Casio aesthetic, and I want to want it, but this is a strange point in the functionality-vs-price space.

A base F-91W costs less than half that, and my phone can already track steps with reasonable reliability.

An entry-level fitbit costs about the same and monitors way more stats including heart rate, SpO2. Worse battery life and appearance, but if I wanted that featureset it's probably what I'd get.

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