OT: uWatch firmware v1.6.0 Released!

[hugh steers]

A treat for uWatch fans, a completely new version is released today. We've been testing it for a couple of weeks and hopefully there are no (serious) bugs. I'm hoping this is a pretty good version.

Lots of new features have been added such as:

* completely re-written menu system with custom characters.

* new calculator functions (nPr, nCr, Stats, bin ops)

* new constants and conversions.

* apps like: Factorise, Quadratic, Stopwatch, Mini Calendar.

* Games: Chess, 21 and Lunar Lander.

* number bases: Dec, Hex, Oct, Binary (with scrolling windows).

picture of the time display (uWatch looking a bit beat up :-) )

Picture of the chess board (you scroll up and down with the right column keys).

Get yours now from sourceforge including source code:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/calcwatch/

Credits: the uWatch team, DaveJ, Andrew Davie, Zowki and myself.

also check, http://www.calcwatch.com

Enjoy!

[DaveJ]

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A treat for uWatch fans, a completely new version is released today. We've been testing it for a couple of weeks and hopefully there are no (serious) bugs. I'm hoping this is a pretty good version.

Lots of new features have been added such as:

* completely re-written menu system with custom characters.

* new calculator functions (nPr, nCr, Stats, bin ops)

* new constants and conversions.

* apps like: Factorise, Quadratic, Stopwatch, Mini Calendar.

* Games: Chess, 21 and Lunar Lander.

* number bases: Dec, Hex, Oct, Binary (with scrolling windows).

Get yours now from sourceforge including source code:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/calcwatch/

Credits: the uWatch team, DaveJ, Andrew Davie, Zowki and myself.

also check, http://www.calcwatch.com

Enjoy!

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Awesome work guys!

All that in 64KB FLASH, 8KB SRAM, a 16x2 character LCD, and a paltry keypad - incredible!

Dave.

Edited: 11 May 2009, 6:02 p.m.

[DaveJ]

The chess display in motion!

and it has a user manual now too:
http://www.taswegian.com/uwatch/uWatch0514a.pdf

Dave.

Edited: 13 May 2009, 10:56 p.m.

[Andrew Davie]

The latest manual can be found at

uWatch User Guide - Latest Version

I've been working on this for a few days or so, so it's changing quite rapidly at the moment. It's about half done, but even now gives a pretty good idea of the capability of the watch and systems... if you don't have one of these things, I can *highly* recommend a purchase.

The above is a composite of the chess board display. For just 8 custom-characters (one of which is the arrow), only *5* pixels wide, it's nothing short of awesome... and very usable on the watch. Interestingly, the LCD doesn't have more than one colour/shade -- the white pieces are done by drawing/undrawing the pieces very rapidly and relying on the LCD fading characteristics to give the effect.

Cheers
A

Edited: 14 May 2009, 8:24 a.m.

[DaveJ]

Gotta be a world first surely?!

I wonder how it's going to look on the uWatch2 128x64 display?

Dave.

[Masao Kinoshita]

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Gotta be a world first surely?!

I wonder how it's going to look on the uWatch2 128x64 display?

Dave.

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I just had to post this jpeg from a couple of years ago. It is a picture of my Abacus AU5007 running HandChess II.

Obviously, I am really interested in your uWatch2! :-)

[Charles Oxford]

Nice work as usual Andrew. Will you be including instruction for updating, etc?

[Andrew Davie]

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Nice work as usual Andrew. Will you be including instruction for updating, etc?

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Yes. The instructions for updating are included in the latest manual. The uWatch now handles "squashed", engineering, fixed-point, and scientific notation... and optionally display of units in SI notation (i.e.: 12345 is displayed as 12.345k). It handles bases 2, 8, 16, and of course 10... and I have also added bit shifting operations.

uWatch User Guide 1.6.0.1