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joeycastillo.bsky.social
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The story of our time is this: the bad guys win, and it's not even close. Remember the whole "It gets better" campaign? That was wishful thinking: a hope, not a promise. It Does Not Get Better. YOU get better at handling the bad thing. The sooner you embrace this reality, the better off you'll be.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Well folks: I think the party may be over when it comes to quick-turn circuit board fun. “For avoidance of doubt, duty-free de minimis treatment under 19 U.S.C. 1321 shall not be available… on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern time on February 4, 2025.” www.reuters.com/world/trumps...

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

when it comes time to assemble this thing, future-joey owes me a beer for being so thoughtful

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

wait so you’re telling me the NFC championship game is sponsored by TurboTax… and the AFC championship game is also sponsored by TurboTax… which means that no matter who loses, TurboTax wins? Again: this feels very on the nose.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Ladies and also ladies, I have good news…

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

God grant me the courage to change the things that I can change, and the serenity to accept that the things that I cannot will require more effort.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Solving a Sensor Watch motion problem: sleep looks like long periods w/o motion, but so does taking off the watch. By adding one more signal to the mix, I think we've got it: a long stationary period generally means sleep, unless accompanied by a rapid temperature drop. Then it's an off-wrist event.

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

Last week I finished my final code for the Sensor Watch accelerometer. Just plotted the data I gathered at 5 minute intervals — orange represents orientation change events, and blue represents minutes without any motion at all — and I'll be damned if that doesn't look like sleep & activity tracking.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Samples of a last-minute change to the accelerometer board arrived last week. Been wearing it ever since; seems all good! This morning I finished a self-test procedure that lets me quickly validate all the functionality of manufactured boards, and just like that, an order for 2000 more is in flight.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

found while digging around for an Arduino. This is not my handwriting.

submitted 121 days ago • 3 comments

Need a distraction from Election Day jitters? At 2:00 EST (11:00 PST) join me and Alex Glow for a Hackster Café livestream! We'll be talking Sensor Watch Pro, my new, MORE hackable board swap for the Casio F-91W that's on Crowd Supply now. That's in 2 hours; set a timer! https://youtu.be/G85LlKGHFdc

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

I will be bringing a couple dozen of these with me to Hackaday Supercon. The "Sensor Watch" SAO is not Sensor Watch — hence the quotes — but it is an I²C segment LCD driver that's easy to control with MicroPython. To get folks started, I have once again put copious documentation on the back side :)

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

…and for Patreon subscribers, today was a twofer: for business-tier patrons, a dive into Oddly Specific Objects' Q3 financials: https://www.patreon.com/posts/114640593 and for everyone else, mechanical drawings of the custom spring connector we're having made: https://www.patreon.com/posts/114641633

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

For this week's Sensor Watch Pro backer update, I wrote about the new accelerometer sensor add-on, and how I'm using it for sleep and activity tracking: https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-watch-pro/updates/sleep-tracking-with-sensor-watch-pro-and-the-accelerometer-add-on

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

Life Pro Tip: How to install a package using homebrew: brew install package [Ctrl] + C HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew install package

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

Last night I finished a sleep tracking proof of concept for Sensor Watch Pro: it counts orientation changes & motion events per hour. Adds 600 nA to the power budget. Sensor Watch data at left; Oura data at right. Note the period of Deep Sleep, and that period of low motion counts from 1:00-3:00 AM…

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

see, if I were cleverer I would have used my return-from-the-void post to share an actual photo of Sensor Watch Pro, and mention that it's live on Crowd Supply. But hey: better late than never. www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specif...

submitted 144 days ago • 2 comments

Testing, testing: is this working? I'm going to try to be active on all the non-Twitter socials, thanks to an app that lets me cross-post stuff. Anyway here's a gadget: today's work power profiling Sensor Watch Pro's new accelerometer add-on.

submitted 144 days ago • 3 comments

I could have sworn I posted something here once before!

submitted 392 days ago • 0 comments