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some time back I was browsing <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/">Crowd Supply</a> when I came
across <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-watch">the Sensor
Watch project</a> by Joey Castillo. I had wanted some kind of "hackable" watch for a while, and had
looked at things like <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/sqfmi/watchy">Watchy</a>, but this
project hit the sweet spot for me. I love my existing F91-W, and this project was a good
combination of open source with community software support. one key feature that was important to
me is battery life - the Sensor Watch battery life in an average usage scenario is so long that
Watch project</a> by <a href="https://github.com/joeycastillo">Joey Castillo</a>. I had wanted some
kind of "hackable" watch for a while, and had looked at things like
<a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/sqfmi/watchy">Watchy</a>, but this project hit the sweet spot
for me. I love my existing F91-W, and this project was a good combination of open source with
community software support. one key feature that was important to me is battery life - the Sensor
Watch battery life in an average usage scenario is so long that
<a href="https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1590066358351298560">Joey's is still going
strong</a>!
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being delivered sooner than this, not sure). on top of this, shipping and import fees made it
pretty prohibitively expensive. I've always found this to be an issue with Crowd Supply as someone
based in the UK, even some things designed in the UK are very expensive from Crowd Supply as they
are assembled in/shipped from the US. so I decided to build one myself!
are assembled in/shipped from the US. so I decided to build one myself! of course, this is more
expensive than just buying it, but this was a learning experience and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dxosj/what_word_or_phrase_did_you_totally_misunderstand/c13pbyc/">
knowledge is power</a>!
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<h2 id="component-acquisition"><a href="#component-acquisition">component acquisition</a></h2>
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<h2 id="epilogue"><a href="#epilogue">epilogue</a></h2>
<p>
<img src="images/watch1.jpg" />
<img src="images/watch2.jpg" />
<img src="images/wrist.jpg" />
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<p>
some summary thoughts:
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<p>
<img src="images/watch1.jpg" />
<img src="images/watch2.jpg" />
<img src="images/wrist.jpg" />
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