Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Vintage Diver watch - Relojes Especiales

Hi! I'm involved on an interesting project with the people from the Relojes Especiales watch forum. We are making a new watch! A diver watch with a vintage shape but modern specifications. 
All the design is new (except the movement) and all the design decisions are voted by the forum members.
I will post some information about this project, I think it is a very nice project and we will have a very nice watch :)
Here you are a picture of the winning case.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Casio GF-1 first Casio game watches

Few days ago 2 new watches arrived at home, very strange Casio model and 2 of them! 
The watches are the Casio GF-1, a basketball watch, quite difficult to see. It has few functions but when the right button is pressed a "fantastic" music sounds and a guy appears playing basket on he screen. Useful? NO! but nice&nerd :)
Unformtunatelly both LCD screen have some leaks, quite big bu not big enough to hide the important parts of the screen.
One of the watches had the PCB partially destroyed so I had to reconstruct it using thin cables... I know, welding is not for me but it works :)

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Eating snakes?

I know this is not related to watches or diving... but not all days you see a Cobra snake on the restaurant's menu!
On a restaurant we ate few days ago there were 3 different types of snakes to eat, the most expensive one was the Cobra. For something close to 15 bucks you can eat the complete snake, including the blood, eyes, heart, etc. I like to taste all types or food, but to drink snake blood or to eat Cobra eyes is too much for me.