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It would work! A cr2032 is a super common "coin cell" battery that we use for all kinds of stuff. The "problem" with this is how long it will run for. A watch battery, or a coin cell doesn't have much current capacity.
You can also get specifically low powered attiny chips as well, so a cr2032 would be more than sufficent to power it for a number of months.
This must be a gag, or the worst example of western opulence I could possibly think of. Seriously, an electronic gadget made to disrupt your day every 5 minutes. I think this requires a better explanation of the purpose before I take it seriously. Right now all the marketing speak combined with the banality of this device makes me think it's the perfect april fools but a few months too soon. Let's assume it's for rea…
This must be a gag, or the worst example of western opulence I could possibly think of. Seriously, an electronic gadget made to disrupt your day every 5 minutes. I think this requires a better explanation of the purpose before I take it seriously. Right now all the marketing speak combined with the banality of this device makes me think it's the perfect april fools but a few months too soon. Let's assume it's for rea…
Anybody that wants one of these: this looks like it would be /trivially/ easy to build. An attiny85 and a vibration motor would do it. The only "hard" part would be fitting a battery in this form factor. Go to your local hackerspace during some open hours, and tell the hackers you want to build one of these. I bet they'll do it with you! (Hell: I'LL do it with you if you come down to heatsync labs [in Phoenix])
Would it be possible to make a fully analog version of this by tearing apart an old kinetic watch?
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That in turn reminds me of magnet implants which are an interesting (and a little odd) concept. http://www.iamdann.com/2012/03/21/my-magnet-implant-body-mod...
Doesn't work well in my 9.4 T MRI environment :)
http://www.amazon.com/Gymboss-Interval-Timer-Stopwatch-METAL...
It. Is. A. Mind. Game.
When your brain "idles" you lose track of time. Time in the mind only exists as a comparison of one moment in the past and another moment in the present. So when you're daydreaming (mostly brain idling) time appears to fly by because there's less datapoints for your mind to use to compare. But when you're checking the time constantly time appears to go by very very slowly.
It can become mentally exhausting when you do it too much though because it speeds up the mind. You become aware of every little moment. It can make you extremely productive but you really do have to take "brain idling" breaks every now and then. Also when you first start off, time will appear to fly by, it'll feel like "5 min" are flying by every 30 seconds. But after about 30 minutes your brain will stop idling so much, you'll become aware of more time points, and it'll feel like time is slowing down and you're thinking "faster".
Give it a try. It's really fascinating.
Anybody that wants one of these: this looks like it would be /trivially/ easy to build. An attiny85 and a vibration motor would do it. The only "hard" part would be fitting a battery in this form factor. Go to your local hackerspace during some open hours, and tell the hackers you want to build one of these. I bet they'll do it with you! (Hell: I'LL do it with you if you come down to heatsync labs [in Phoenix])
Probably a lipoly battery this size would work.