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Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by the_pwner224 »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #9
victorbojica wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvrLvII5oxSWEMEkszrxXEA

These are all from the articles on the homepage, https://n-o-d-e.net/index.html, many of them contain videos but also with mirrors on YT/archive.org/etc. I would be really interested to know what software he uses to make the videos.

The Zine also seems pretty great.

Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

the_pwner224 wrote: post #11
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Especially the YouTube videos. Couldn't find the channel, what's the name?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvrLvII5oxSWEMEkszrxXEA These are all from the articles on the homepage, https://n-o-d-e.net/index.html , many of them contain videos but also with mirrors on YT/archive.org/etc. I would be really interested to know what software he uses to make the videos. The Zine also seems pretty great.

Thank you, Now I feel dumb. I was so preoccupied in digging inside the source to see if it was plain html video tag or are they using custom player that I didn't see Youtube mirror beneath each video and more over my google whacking skills failed me.

>I would be really interested to know what software he uses to make the videos

I would like to know the encoding parameters he uses to convert the video to .mp4, because when ever I convert my video to .mp4 with handbrake or ffmpeg it fails to play properly in in one or more browsers resulting in me putting 3 different sources in my blog (Twitter, direct .mp4/.webm links)[1].

[1]https://abishekmuthian.com/butt-pomodoro-a-butt-triggered-po...

Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by etbusch »

Similar to Travis Goodspeed's goodwatch project, which is a replacement board for Casio calculator watches that contains a sub-GHz programmable radio. I've built a few of them and had fun writing software for it.

https://kk4vcz.com/goodwatch/

https://github.com/travisgoodspeed/goodwatch/

Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by jonpurdy »

This is awesome. As I watched the video I was thinking how great it’d be to have an NFC chip for payments and transit in my watch. Of course, I remembered shortly after that my Apple Watch does this already but I never use it for NFC because it’s easier to hold your phone up to a reader than to twist your wrist and arm.

Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by classichasclass »

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…

I also liked the transcript below the video so you can read along. I wish more sites would do that. I'm not hearing impaired (though it's definitely a boon if you are), but it's a lot more convenient to just see the words sometimes.

Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by kruffin »

jasona99 wrote: post #15

Does anyone know what NFC transponder they might be using? I might have filtered too much on Mouser and missed it, but I'm struggling to find an 8KB module with that case. I also can't find it on the site since there's no BOM.

Freeze the video at 1:47 and you'll see K352 4SDYU from STMicroelectronics. Dug a little and came up with M24SR16-YDW6T/2 which can be found in DigiKey here: https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=M24SR16-YDW6T%2...

That one is only a 2Kb though. They also make an 8Kb 4SFYU: https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=M24SR64-YDW6T%2...

Re: Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

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Post by komali2 »

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…

Could do with a little css to make it more readable on mobile though. Wouldn't take much, one or two lines.
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