Sensor Watch Field Reports and New Community Watch Faces

Originally published at Crowd Supply.

Special Edition Sensor Watch: Field Reports

Everyone who ordered a Special Edition Sensor Watch should have received it by now. I’m starting to see field reports of folks who have assembled theirs! I’ve been super excited to see the different styles of F-91W that folks have chosen for their Sensor Watch board swaps. @helenleigh, Crowd Supply’s Head of Community, chose a silver F-91W with a clear jelly band:

@GeekMomProjects chose a similar watch with a baby blue tint, here displaying the sunrise/sunset watch face:

@IShJR opted for an F-91W with a royal blue watch bezel and sparkling highlights:

And in perhaps the coolest mod I’ve seen, @MareNextDoor transplanted parts from two different watches to create this striking A158 Sensor Watch with an inverted white-on-black LCD. I didn’t even know this was possible!

Join the Movement: Community Watch Faces, and the Sensor Watch Discord

In addition to folks assembling their hardware, last month also saw folks building their own software for Movement, the community firmware for Sensor Watch!

First off, @tahnok built a productivity app he’s calling the Tomato Timer, after another popular productivity timer varietal. It counts out 25 minutes of focused time, alternating with five-minute breaks to keep your mind limber.

And then @spencerbyw designed the amazing Probability watch face, which lets you flip a coin or throw a die (from 4 to 100 sides, including the ever-so-popular 20-sided die):

This watch face is especially exciting to me, because it’s the first to make use of a unique peripheral on the SAM L22: its True Random Number Generator. When this watch face first appears, the system’s pseudo-random number generator automatically gets seeded with entropy from the microcontroller’s hardware RNG, which generates high-quality random numbers. It’s yet another situation where the versatility of this little microcontroller really shines.

Want to talk about these watch faces, or get advice about designing one of your own? Sensor Watch also now has a Discord! Check it out here.