New retro watch daily driver! I'm very happy with my new £30 Casio "Royale" (AE-1200WH). I might need to swap the battery in 10 years and maybe buy another watch in 30. Now to mod it to my heart's content! And even if I go crazy with mods (titanium + steel body / sapphire glass), it'll still cost only about 1/5 of a top-end Samsung or Apple smartwatch!

#CasioRoyale #RetroWatch #AE1200WH #NotThatDumbWatch #CasioMods #Casio

I've been wearing my new ABL-100WE-1AVT for a few weeks now. I think this is my new favourite!

Finally a watch that doesn't look like some sweaty fitness apparatus, yet it still tracks my step count for the day. And has enough bluetooth magic to sync the time and settings when/if you want to.

#CasioCult #RetroWatch #Casio

Es gibt ein Update von @joeycastillo für die #SensorWatch. Das Board der #SensorWatchPro bekommt eine RGB-LED, integrierte Temperatur- und Infrarotlichtsensoren. Insbesondere auf das neue LCD-Display, das auch abwärtskompatibel sein soll, bin ich gespannt.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-watch-pro/updates/at-long-last-the-sensor-watch-pro-campaign-is-live
#RetroWatch #CasioCult #F91W #CasioF91W

Today I repaired and restored this early 1974 Texas Instruments TI-102 digital LED watch. Fingers crossed, it will continue to work and keep good time. Half a century ago, it cost about £500 in today’s money.

#VintageWatch #RetroWatch #LEDwatch #TexasInstruments #TI102
[23/02/2022]

Retro Gaming Watch is like a mini Game Boy SP you wear on your wrist (crowdfunding) #Crowdfunding, #Fpga, #MiniConsole, #RetroConsole, #RetroGaming, #RetroGamingWatch, #RetroWatch

https://liliputing.com/retro-gaming-watch-is-like-a-mini-game-boy-sp-you-wear-on-your-wrist-crowdfunding/

Retro Gaming Watch is like a mini Game Boy SP you wear on your wrist (crowdfunding)

We’ve seen retro consoles that are tiny enough to put on a keychain. But the Retro Gaming Watch is a tiny game console you can wear on your wrist and use as a watch when you’re not playing games on it.
But you can also flip up the screen to reveal a mini game console that looks like a Game Boy SP. And there’s hardware and software to […]

https://liliputing.com/?p=165257

#crowdfunding #fpga #miniConsole #retroConsole #retroGaming #retroGamingWatch #retroWatch

Hewlett Packard HP-01 Calculator Watch (1977) #RetroWatch

via Retro Tech Dreams from Twitter

Hewlett Packard HP-01 Calculator Watch (1977) #RetroWatch

via Retro Tech Dreams from Twitter

Enjoying a beer while grilling kabobs for dinner. #offcolorbrewing Yuzu Fierce with black pepper marinated beef kabobs from Whole Foods. They always go too heavy on the meat, so we're supplementing the veggies.

The highlight is getting to use my new-to-me Paul Garnier Minu-Stop #retrowatch to keep track of when to flip.

#Beer #kabobs #bbq #watchesandclocks

CASIO GS-20 (1990) #RetroWatch

via Retro Tech Dreams from Twitter

What a beautiful #watch

I'm happy with my #vintage #retrowatch #Casio DBC-81 #DataBank , bought w/ my 1st salary in 1990. But this...😍

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘍𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘳 (1939), 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘚, 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯'𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘈𝘳𝘮𝘺 𝘈𝘪𝘳 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘞𝘐𝘐".

Also "𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥'𝘴 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵, 𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘢 𝘪𝘯 1466".

© Time Maven at English Wikipedia®, Public Domain

Arduino Keeps Your Classic Timex Datalink in Sync

The Timex Datalink was arguably the first usable smartwatch, and was worn by NASA astronauts as well as geek icons like Bill Gates. It could store alarms, reminders and phone numbers, and of course tell the time across a few dozen time zones. One of the Datalink's main innovations was its ability to download information from your PC -- either through flashing images on a CRT monitor or through a special adapter plugged into a serial port.

With CRTs thin on the ground and original serial adapters fetching ludicrous prices online, classic Datalink users today may find it hard to keep their watches in sync with their Outlook calendars. Fortunately for them, [famiclone] came up with a solution: a DIY Datalink adapter based on an Arduino. It works the same way as Timex's serial adapter, in that it receives data through the computer's serial port and transmits it to the watch by flashing a red LED.

Updating your watch does require the use of the original Datalink PC software, which only runs on classic operating systems like Windows 95 or 98, so you'll need to keep a copy of such an OS running. Luckily, it has no problem with virtual machines or USB COM ports, so at least you don't need to keep vintage PC hardware around. Then again, whipping out a 1995 Pentium laptop to update your Timex watch would make for the ultimate geek party piece.

Love classic geeky watches? Check out this featured article we did on them a few years ago. If you're interested in using computer monitors to transmit data optically, we've covered a few projects that do just that.

#classichacks #wearablehacks #retrowatch #timex #timexdatalink