Oscilloscope Watch Ships After 10 Years on Kickstarter
Oscilloscope Watch Ships After 10 Years on Kickstarter
Now you can tell time and measure current on the go.
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
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.
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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.
Idk I feel like the people who back things on kickstarter have their expectations set way too high (and obviously the people running it are naive and play into that) but good lord you guys funded $70k for an oscilloscope and you’re upset it takes a decade? You are astoundingly lucky this even came out, and it only did because the guy that ran it has a heart of gold.
People really need to start to understand what it takes to bring a product to market before they start backing kickstarters
People really need to start to understand what it takes to bring a product to market before they start backing kickstarters
Alternatively people should stop looking at Kickstarting as buying or investing in a product. It's closer to a donation to help someone try and realize their idea. You support cool idea you think should exist and that should by your primary motivation. Getting something out of it is just added bonus.
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
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?
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
I wonder what the effective number of bits are on this thing.
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My znaps must be right behind em