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Title    A Watch Only A Ham Can Use
Date    Thursday December 21 2017, @08:19AM
Author    mrpg
Topic   
from the 0.7734 dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/12/20/1532219

Fnord666 writes:

We're not sure what to make of this one. With the variety of smartwatches and fitness trackers out there, we can't be surprised by what sort of hardware ends up strapped to wrists these days. So a watch with an RPN calculator isn't too much of a stretch. But adding a hex editor? And a disassembler? Oh, and while you're at it, a transceiver for the 70cm ham band? Now that's something you don't see every day.

The mind boggles at not only the technical prowess needed to pull off what [Travis Goodspeed (KK4VCZ)] calls the GoodWatch, but at the thought process that led to all these features being packed into the case of a Casio calculator watch. But a lot of hacking is more about the "Why not?" than the "Why?", and when you start looking at the feature set of the CC430F6137 microcontroller [Travis] chose, things start to make sense.

Source: A Watch Only A Ham Can Use


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  1. "Fnord666" - https://soylentnews.org/~Fnord666/
  2. "GoodWatch" - https://goodwatch.org/posts/introducing-the-goodwatch/
  3. " A Watch Only A Ham Can Use" - https://hackaday.com/2017/12/19/a-watch-only-a-ham-can-use/
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=23898

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