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Good that they finally "made right" and I would love one from a novelty standpoint but...
That thing looks "3d printed" in the worst possible way. Like, they didn't even bother to do a quick pass with some sandpaper to get rid of the FDM striations.
I am not saying everything needs to be injection molded and 3d printing is awesome for small batch products (my favorite HOTAS is pretty blatantly printed). But I would at least expect a quick pass with some sandpaper to make it feel "premium".
When I saw the image I thought it was a prototype. That's pretty funny.
It is a prototype, but honestly the production model doesn't look to much better. Warning, Twitter link
It's been printed on a textured sheet, lmao
That can't be a production product...God damn it i would be pissed if i paid for something and it turned up looking like that.
Not even that. My bog standard budget preassembled 3d printer already produces far better top layers than what's shown in those pictures.
It's using ten year old microcontroller technology too. And ten year old 3d printing technology.
I guess that's what you get when your kickstarter takes ten years to deliver.
But I would at least expect a quick pass with some sandpaper to make it feel “premium”.
uh, well, it took 10 years to get these watches shipped, sanding would probably have taken another year at least
Ok fair on the finish, but can we give an extra round of applause for this guy actually delivering something functional and not just the wish.com version. If it's just one guy honestly I'm ok with mediocre 3d printing.
At least he finally came through.
I'm sorry. It looks like garbage. I can't stand 3D printed stuff for anything other than prototypes.
And that armband is definitely a cheap Aliexpress bulk item. Seen a hundred of them.
Bruh a single dude made this over 10 years and shipped this all by himself. And that too on a total budget of 70k. I'm just glad this wasn't just outright abandoned.
I think it's really cool
The band is a NATO strap, pretty standard across the board.
The 3D printed watches are prototypes. Here's what the shipped product looks like: https://twitter.com/BitBangingBytes/status/1695192177310150993
That just looks 3d printed on a textured sheet
It is... Looks like the textured plate from Prusa. Not even the "nicer" satin plate.
This is 3D printed.
I definitely don't need this but I want it so bad.
You just want to play Doom on it. We know.
You read my mind. That was my first question. Microcontroller? C? Ok yeah it can run doom for sure. But e ink? It'd look terrible...
This is one of those things that seems like it has a high gadget desirability potential on the surface, but I really can't see replacing my existing perfectly functional (and probably significantly more durable) smartwatch with this. I already have one of those credit card sized pocket oscilloscopes. I can't see any need for a device more portable than that. Even for the purposes of just showing off to your nerd friends, you'd only ever really be able to do that once per nerd, and then what?
I already have one of those credit card sized pocket oscilloscopes.
Why have I never heard of this
Theyre kind of trash, I rocked one for a while in my gear bag, used it a handful of times, mostly as a simple volt probe or "the signal is moving".
And my irl job is chip/board bringup so I'm the best use case.
The portable hantek ones though, I swear by them, they do everything and you can plug them in to usb and run them on Linux.
The credit card ones have shit probes and are just barely worth it, especially since I mostly work at higher frequencies, I wouldn't trust it past audio and I wouldn't trust the precision much around that.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ten years ago on Kickstarter, Gabriel Anzziani unveiled plans to produce an oscilloscope watch.
After nearly forgetting about the project, early backers were surprised this month to receive a package containing the oscilloscope watch.
The watch mode has several useful features including formatting options for 24 vs 12 hour layouts and even an alarm.
The watch is powered by an 8-bit Xmega microcontroller with an internal PDI.
According to Anzziani, one goal of the project was to enable users to create their own apps for the watch.
Anzziani explains the expected battery life varies depending on whether or not the oscilloscope is in use.
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200kHz bandwidth is not a lot, but can be useful sometimes, especially on some car sensors, but not really on embedded development. I have a small FNIRSI DSO152 for fun too :)
It would be fine for audio work, for instance, but the overall size and resolution could make measurements a challenge.
I'm a little shocked it's not a Watchy with a custom app on it
My znaps must be right behind em
