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Introducing the GoodWatch
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#22This is neat!
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#23So what's going on with those Hungarian words on the disassembler pic? :)
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#24>What if you’re stuck in an hour-long SCRUM meeting and need to reverse engineer your watch’s firmware with pen and paper to retain your own sanity?”
The worst of the worst meetings.
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#25Oh my gosh this is amazing, such a labor of love. Everyone clearly needs a reverse engineered disassembler on their wrist.
I was going to leave a snarky comment about "reverse engineered disassembler" but then accidentally saw the username. What do you mean by that?
I would assume he's referring to the MSP430 disassembler built into the watch so you can reverse engineer the watches hardware, as it says in the article.
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#26I miss posts like this on HN.
Came here to reply: “this is why I read HN.”. Glad to see more people feel like that. @author (if here). Thanks, fantastic read and an even better gadget. You made me feel “O my, I need this!”.
If this why you read HN, I'd suggest checking out Hackaday, which gives you new content along these lines pretty much every day.
Would recommend checking out both the Hackaday blog and Hackaday.io. The blog covers news articles about hacks, and Hackaday.io is a place where a community of hackers share their own projects:
The main negatives I could say about Hackaday is the comment section on the blog is frequently a waste of time, and the UI of Hackaday.io could do with some improvements (IMO), but there's plenty of interesting projects to check out, and it's easy to ignore the comments section.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came here to reply: “this is why I read HN.”. Glad to see more people feel like that. @author (if here). Thanks, fantastic read and an even better gadget. You made me feel “O my, I need this!”.
If this why you read HN, I'd suggest checking out Hackaday, which gives you new content along these lines pretty much every day. Would recommend checking out both the Hackaday blog and Hackaday.io. The blog covers news articles about hacks, and Hackaday.io is a place where a community of hackers share their own projects: https://hackaday.com/blog/ https://hackaday.io/ The main negatives I could say about Hackaday is…
Hackaday is indeed great for finding out about neat projects. Don't read the comments, though. Everyone is hobbying wrong and they need to know it right now.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
If this why you read HN, I'd suggest checking out Hackaday, which gives you new content along these lines pretty much every day. Would recommend checking out both the Hackaday blog and Hackaday.io. The blog covers news articles about hacks, and Hackaday.io is a place where a community of hackers share their own projects: https://hackaday.com/blog/ https://hackaday.io/ The main negatives I could say about Hackaday is…
Hackaday is indeed great for finding out about neat projects. Don't read the comments, though. Everyone is hobbying wrong and they need to know it right now.
Agreed, the comments sections on the blog probably the worst part of HaD. Very low signal to noise ratio. The main content makes up for it IMO.
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#29Wow. Everything about this is amazing, including the nostalgia from leafing through KMart catalogues of the 1980s for all the Casio watches.
Casio Wrist Camera digital watch Casio digital watch with built-in infrared remote for your TV Good times. Actually not very useful but they looked so hot back then and I remember just laying on the floor looking at the pictures of such watches.
It was quite useful to drive your teacher crazy when changing the volume randomly of the TV.
That was so fun when I was a teenager.
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#30This is one of those articles/projects where I really miss an established universal web-wide donation system. I just want to click a button on that page and send the author a few bucks as a Thank You for doing amazing things. (And no, a Paypal link is not an answer to this problem)
I really want to build a micropayments system for stuff like this.