This is a bit orthogonal, but if you're interested in the watch form factor, TI makes a really neat watch dev board for the MSP430 that has a built-in accelerometer and support for wireless sensors.
Introducing the GoodWatch
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#32Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20171216140013/https://goodwatch... (can't find a mirror w/photos)
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#33Earlier 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…
Thanks for this. It is in my bookmarks bar now. Definitely part of my regular reading list.
Re: Introducing the GoodWatch
#34This 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.
You totally should!
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#35This 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)
Flattr tries to be that.
Anyone know why it isn't more successful?
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#36Oh 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?
You might want to be more mindful of snarkiness, with Google's help you'll know why, I'd hope.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flattr tries to be that.
Anyone know why it isn't more successful?
People don't really care about (micro)payments and paypal actually does work just fine for one time events. Easier for people to list an email then signup for another service to get a few dollars.
Also Flattr is owned by the Adblock Plus company now which has questionable history.
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#38This 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)
Why doesnt paypal work? All they need to list is an email address, it's the lowest amount of work.
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#39This is definitely the geekiest, most awesome thing I will see today. Fantastic.
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#40This is a bit orthogonal, but if you're interested in the watch form factor, TI makes a really neat watch dev board for the MSP430 that has a built-in accelerometer and support for wireless sensors. http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos
I'm not sure whether Chronos is still in production. In comparison to this chronos is large (it is significantly larger that you would expect from the pictures) and it's radio capabilities are limited (not to mention that it does not have keyboard ;))
TI also for a short time made more advanced version with bluetooth, sane industrial design and certified radio which was quite similar to Pebble.