TI recently announced a new development platform for their MSP430 micros. This particular platform includes wireless USB programming, a 96-segment LCD, 3-axis accelerometer, pressure sensor, and onboard RF transciever. Oh, and it's only $49.
Yeah, all that's fun, but y'know what sweetens the deal even more? It's in a wristwatch form factor!
That has me incredibly excited. It has some fun sensors which manage to be useful on a normal non-hackable watch, and combine the utter reprogram-ability with those goodies, and there's any amount of coolness one could do with it.
My best idea thus far: combine it with a black-box sort of thing with GPS and a compass chip, and you have yourself a wrist-mounted geocompass (not quite.. you still need to carry the black-box).
Anyone else have cool ideas? I'm nearly certain I'll jump on this and get one of those.
Yeah, all that's fun, but y'know what sweetens the deal even more? It's in a wristwatch form factor!
That has me incredibly excited. It has some fun sensors which manage to be useful on a normal non-hackable watch, and combine the utter reprogram-ability with those goodies, and there's any amount of coolness one could do with it.
My best idea thus far: combine it with a black-box sort of thing with GPS and a compass chip, and you have yourself a wrist-mounted geocompass (not quite.. you still need to carry the black-box).
Anyone else have cool ideas? I'm nearly certain I'll jump on this and get one of those.