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Introducing the GoodWatch

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Re: Introducing the GoodWatch

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Post by sowbug »

throwanem wrote: post #27
ZenoArrow wrote: post #26

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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.

Post more Hackaday articles here.

Re: Introducing the GoodWatch

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Post by sowbug »

craftyguy wrote: post #49
detaro wrote: post #15

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GPD Pocket: http://www.gpd.hk/pocket.asp

well that's fucking sexy. now I want one.

It delivers what it promises -- an unbelievably small Windows PC -- but there are four annoying things about it.

First, the fan runs when it's charging. Every other device on Earth can charge silently when turned off.

Second, the keyboard is not just small but also oddly arranged. Maybe some people can adjust to it, but for me, dear lord do I despise the letter Q when I'm using it.

Third, there's something odd in the I/O that makes USB drives incredibly slow. The first thing I did was make a Windows 10 recovery drive on it (because I wanted to wipe it and run Linux). I kid you not, the operation took about 24 straight hours to complete. I haven't bothered profiling the system so I don't know where the bottleneck is. But it was a USB3 name-brand USB drive that I know is fast.

Fourth, they claim Ubuntu runs on it, but they took the typical Shenzhen approach of putting a modified binary on Mega -- in this case an Ubuntu ISO -- rather than upstreaming their changes or publishing source code. No way in hell am I installing a binary download like that as my OS. Maybe they are in the process of upstreaming and a future pristine Ubuntu distro will run on it. Meanwhile I'm stuck with Windows 10 (and no, I'm not happy with that, either -- I have no way of knowing it's not rooted, either).

Re: Introducing the GoodWatch

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Post by alunaryak »

dfox wrote: post #40
alunaryak wrote: post #31

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. 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.

It's definitely getting long in the tooth, but I believe a few places still stock them. Mouser & Digikey both have a handful in stock.

Mouser: https://www.mouser.com/search/refine.aspx?Ntk=P_MarCom&Ntt=1...

Digikey: https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/t/texas-instrum...

Re: Introducing the GoodWatch

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Post by ReverseCold »

chc4 wrote: post #48
yoodenvranx wrote: post #12

This 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)

Honestly, that sounds like a problem for cryptocurrency. Lots of people just put their wallet address on things and you can send them money.

And not necessarily Bitcoin, $10 is not the transaction fee everywhere (some places it's ~1¢)

Re: Introducing the GoodWatch

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Post by craftyguy »

sowbug wrote: post #54
craftyguy wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well that's fucking sexy. now I want one.

It delivers what it promises -- an unbelievably small Windows PC -- but there are four annoying things about it. First, the fan runs when it's charging. Every other device on Earth can charge silently when turned off. Second, the keyboard is not just small but also oddly arranged. Maybe some people can adjust to it, but for me, dear lord do I despise the letter Q when I'm using it. Third, there's something odd in the…

> Fourth, they claim Ubuntu runs on it, but they took the typical Shenzhen approach of putting a modified binary on Mega -- in this case an Ubuntu ISO -- rather than upstreaming their changes or publishing source code.

Well, that makes this a no-go for me. Thanks for the info, seriously!

> No way in hell am I installing a binary download like that as my OS

Um, if you run windows 10 and install drivers from them, then you're running binary crap. (not to mention windows 10 is binary crap, but I digress)

Re: Introducing the GoodWatch

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Post by passwordqq2 »

mistermann wrote: post #36
passwordqq2 wrote: post #3

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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.

Read unwinds's reply Mr smartass
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