Dodoradio's blog

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.

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The AsteroidOS port initially stalled because this was my first watch where fastboot boot didn't work (I believe the code for the boot c...

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. It actually comes as two packages, the second of which is sensorlogd, which does the actual logging and hopefully will be appropriate for more than just health tracki...

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...

2023-05-13: Minimalism as applied to blogging

As should be obvious from glancing at the contents of my website, I don't like javascript. This website is, frankly, an active protest against 'Web 2.0' and its ideals of never letting your browser breathe easy. I took a look at the various wonders of modern blogging. Things like Jekyll look quite nice, theoretically fulfilling my desires for cutesy static bloggi...