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Sensor-Watch
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joeycastillo / Sensor-Watch

Sensor-Watch

A board replacement for the classic Casio F-91W wristwatch

12Distinct people
15Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

A board replacement for the classic Casio F-91W wristwatch

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year15 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-08-08 17:45:34 UTC to 2025-10-14 03:27:24 UTC.

02462021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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Not at all. The reason the easter egg does not appear is this is not actually a Casio Module 593 emulator. It is simply running the compiled sensor watch firmware. So for those words to appear there must be code in the firmware to make it happen. And someone has sent a pull request for it! Unfortunately it was rejected due to trademark concerns. https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch/pull/102 The sensor watch board is not being fully emulated either. The code is compiled to WASM and run directly. Some functionality is missing. Low power states, for example: the emulator freezes if the firmware tries to put the watch to sleep. It would be nice if the sensor watch board could be ported to qemu. I tried to do it only to discover I was a little out of my depth.
In TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch
Love this project, use it literally every day. Not too long ago I implemented a new interface for defining the TOTP codes from within the source code. Unfortunately that work has invalidated the instructions in this article. It works like this now: static totp_t credentials[] = { CREDENTIAL(2F, "JBSWY3DPEHPK3PXP", SHA1, 30), CREDENTIAL(AC, "JBSWY3DPEHPK3PXP", SHA1, 30), }; https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch/blob/main/movem... I also added user calibration to the pulsometer in order to allow it to be used as an asthmometer. It has already helped save lives. It's also got calibration and thermal compensation features which enhance the watch's accuracy to about 10 seconds per year. It's got a growing community. A lot of people have showed up to hack on the firmware. Recently someone made an endless runner game for the
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watch: https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch/pull/419 The maintainers are really nice people too. If you're looking for a great open source project to sink some time into, this is it.
In TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch

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