Casio F-B100W-1A - Hacker News

Posted by __fst__ 20 hours ago

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emsign 46 minutes ago|

> A built-in motion sensor automatically tracks your daily steps, with your step count displayed on the LCD screen. Pair with your smartphone via Bluetooth® for automatic time adjustment and easy access to watch settings through the app.

I see and I was wondering why they sold it for £55 only. They collect and sell your personal data.

I'm happy with my original one, thanks.

raffael_de 16 hours ago||

I really like my F91W case with a Sensor Watch Pro board and accelerometer sensor.

My favorite features:

- Piezo alarm is much louder.

- Countdown time can be incremented by tapping the watch.

- LED color can be changed by adjusting RGB values.

- It features sunrise/-set and moon phase info/calendar.

- I changed the week day names to German abbreviations.

- There are lots of intriguing watch faces that you can compile into your firmware.

Sadly, the project is in some disarray as the originator apparently lost interest and the community isn't moving uniformly. Would love to see such a project for Casio with 4 buttons as this would allow for a lot more interesting use cases ... the pinnacle would be a board for their calculator watches. That would be rad.

The Sensor Watch forum on Discord is pretty active.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-wa...

matheusmoreira 3 hours ago||

> Sadly, the project is in some disarray as the originator apparently lost interest and the community isn't moving uniformly.

What's going on? Can you give me more details?

raffael_de 3 hours ago||

only outsider info based on GitHub stats and Discord.

nomel 15 hours ago||

There must be some significant creativity with limitations of the physical display layout! [1]

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/img/87bb/b84945f8-c8fd-4a06-9291...

joombaga 14 hours ago||

They make a replacement screen too. The feature set depends on the firmware, and you pick the right firmware for your screen (or make your own, it's FOSS).

raffael_de 13 hours ago||

yes, of course, one should also get the custom screen. offers a little more in terms of displaying.

yegle 18 hours ago||

Upon seeing "Bluetooth" and "Daily steps" I'd assume this is another watch that requires daily charging, but wow 2y battery w/ CR2016!

woodson 16 hours ago||

Yes, it seems to be a repackaging of the ABL-100WE and has a long battery life. Unfortunately, their app is horrible, only works after signing up for an account, and only works if given every tracking permission possible to vacuum the maximum amount of data to the cloud.

dredmorbius 7 hours ago|||

Several of the G-Shock models (lacking BT and pedometer) advertise up to 10 year life.

Either way, vastly more appealing than a charge-it-daily "smartwatch" IMO.

Jskewel 12 hours ago|||

It's almost unbelievable that a step-tracker can have 2 years battery.

minusLik 16 hours ago||

Yup, the ingenuity to pull this off fascinates me every day, too.

erickhill 12 hours ago||

Only available via that link in the UK or Ireland for £55.00. Quick jump over to Ebay US? $189.62 (And FedEx will have a word after they deliver it.)

US, for now, can keep getting the unconnected F91W $25 lookalike. IIRC, the F-91W has a really small strap. Almost a "ladies watch" size.

pezezin 10 hours ago||

> IIRC, the F-91W has a really small strap. Almost a "ladies watch" size.

It does. A few months ago I bought a F-91W for the nostalgia, but I have a hard time wearing it due to the tiny strap. I just ordered a bigger one strap, let's see how it works.

ValentineC 9 hours ago||

> And FedEx will have a word after they deliver it.

I don't understand this statement. Is there some reference I'm missing?

kalleboo 6 hours ago||

US tariffs and FedEx customs broker fees.

puzzlingcaptcha 2 hours ago||

Or you could get a $50 smartband and have so much more functionality and still recharge only once a week or two.

kazinator 19 hours ago||

If you want a Casio watch and are traveling to Japan, just get one at a second hand shop there (WonderEx, Second Street, ...). They are tend to be well stocked on the Casio cruft.

I have a Casio PHYS STR-800, nonworking. I got it two decades ago because of the large lap memory (and unusual look, too); I was doing a lot of running, including track training and such.

It short circuited one day. Put in a battery, and it drained the thing in a minute. Put in another one, same thing.

It's been sitting in the top shelf of a bathroom cabinet since like 2011.

kylemaxwell 19 hours ago||

I have two of these (wearing one right now!!) and several other cheap Casio watches. Some of my favorite purchases ever. I'm so in.

aidenn0 14 hours ago||

Casio has so many great, cheap, watches for which you don't accidentally change the time, reset your stop watch, or switch from between 12/24h mode every time you bend your wrist.

The F201W (which this appears to be based off of) is not one of them.

doe88 19 hours ago||

  > Power supply and battery life
  > Approx. battery life: 2 years on CR2016

Not bad!

b8 5 hours ago|

I wish they would've added features like LED lighting and other improvements while keeping Solar and Atomic clock syncing. Instead of modern smart watch stuff.

onehair 5 hours ago||

I have the ABL-100WE-1A version, it has LED backlight. all of the ABL-100WE have it. I press 3 seconds on the mode button, the watch syncs to the phone, syncs the clock and doesn't drift for a long time, and it also syncs the steps from pedometer.

retired 5 hours ago||

These watches have cheap batteries that you can swap in two minutes. Not a big deal. Solar batteries cost a lot more money and will render this watch as e-waste in the future.

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