[eddieweng]

Wow, this is such a cool hack. Taking a Casio F-91W—literally the indestructible watch—and giving it a microcontroller brain while keeping that retro LCD? Pure genius. The pluggable sensor module (starting with a thermometer!) is what sold me. Now I’m daydreaming about slapping on an air quality sensor, an NFC chip, or… honestly, why not a tiny radiation detector?

But flashing firmware via USB on a Casio? That’s the kind of absurdly cool detail that makes me love hardware tinkering. It’s like giving your grandpa’s old pickup truck a Tesla battery but keeping the patina.

Huge props for keeping it open and hackable.

[jglamine]

This reads exactly like it was written by Claude. Was it? It's the exact same writing style.

[Etheryte]

Not passing any judgement on this specific comment, but I've seen a fair bit of what you describe in other comment threads on HN as of late, and I can't help but wonder — why? I get that some people bot on Reddit because you can sell the accounts to spammers and such later, but here? I just don't get why anyone would do it on HN, but it's definitely a thing.

[ohnoitsahuman]

I got lazy and ran a list of points through a language model. The key is to give it direction, like "be succinct".

(NB Just did this)

[jglamine]

Your other comments seem human though!