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2024-06-04: DSC-QX100, the point-and-shoot-est of point-and-shoots

I was, as they say, nerdsniped, by a video from element14's teardown series on the Sony DSC-QX10. Luckily, the slightly more exciting DSC-QX100 showed up on Ebay a few weeks later and I bought it for myself as a gag christmas present.

I understand that Sony wanted to answer the question of 'how can we make a phone take better phot

2023-07-25: WSD-F20: Obituary

Unfortunately, my Casio Pro Trek Smart WSD-F20 has died. The story started when I got it from my favourite social media, Gumtree, basically new in box (worn twice) and for the grand sum of GBP20. Good deal indeed. --- The AsteroidOS port initially stalled because this was my first watch where `fastboot boot` didn't work (I believe the code for the `boot` command was actually commented out somew

2023-07-17: Health trackers, a non-trivial problem

You might know that I'm writing a health tracker for AsteroidOS smartwatches called [asteroid-health](https://git.dodorad.io/dodoradio/asteroid-health). It actually comes as two packages, the second of which is [sensorlogd](https://git.dodorad.io/dodoradio/asteroid-sensorlogd), which does the actual logging and hopefully will be appropriate for more than just health tracking. I'm not sure there's

2023-05-19: The weird hardware of the LG Watch W7

So I recently came into the possession of an LG Watch W7, the WearOS hybrid watch with hands. It's a bizarre thing, and from using it for a few hours you really get the feeling that it had a troubled development. The development time was quoted as something like 2.5 years, and I imagine that it was triggered by the first prototypes of screens with holes. The two years were probably spent aimlessl