Comments on: LCD Watch Design with Ultrasonic Distance Meter

By: Samukun

Samukun — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:40:45 +0000

Thank you Pete

Thank you everyone, who left love and comprehensible critics. Sometimes a cool geometry is enough, sometimes a gimmick makes a watch. I like to try out everything

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:15:03 +0000

weird, one gets added another goes off, kinda poetic!
This wasn’t my favorite of your designs but was still outstanding quality! best of luck for this entry!

By: Samukun

Samukun — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:29:32 +0000

Thanks Acan! Yeah, the distance meter seems to be too much for this watch. I’m glad, the visual part is quite appealing.

By: AcanthaceousShrike

AcanthaceousShrike — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:50:07 +0000

I don’t see the practical use of a distance meter actually. If you ask me, it can go. It seems a bit like you needed to add a gimmick for some reason. The watch looks cool. I like the color scheme. Even it it were without the LCD panel, it would still be a solid design with some nice details.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:46:49 +0000

dont worry about this guy, he hates everything

By: Samukun

Samukun — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:29:40 +0000

Thanks for your technical knowledge. I tend to be pretty optimistic with my designs

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:37:40 +0000

I have worked with sonar distance sensors before and I can tell you this will never work. There are always reflections from other objects, and the sound received by the sensor varies by the millisecond. Your distance reading will fluctuate wildly. Assuming that you were able to hold it still for a number of seconds and the watch could take an average reading, it would probably be highly inaccurate. Another problem is the size of the sonar emitter. Take a look at the MaxBotiX ultrasonic sensor to get an idea of the size of a typical sensor: http://www.maxbotix.com/ It would simply be too big for a watch. These sensors are simply not accurate.

By: Samukun

Samukun — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:18:53 +0000

Thanks Firdaus. Nice how you picked out the strengths

By: Firdaus

Firdaus — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:45:29 +0000

A good stuff to play around with. Useful to keep track distance between my boss and I, and most probably useful for blind or dim individual (if it can beep). I like the minimal but sleek design, it fulfills my taste. The designer is surely has a good sense of art, trend and ergonomic. Oh I almost forgot that this is a watch design. As for watch part, quite okay interesting, and. Why not grab it if I could.

By: Samukun

Samukun — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:45:05 +0000

Comprehensible point. Convincing actually. It’s cool you prefer just a watch. When I made the watch, I felt a certain need for some sensory, and this one felt perfect.

Thanks Bruce!

By: Samukun

Samukun — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:40:16 +0000

Why thank you Rob! That could be a budget variant. I will dig out my early sensor-free concepts and post them on my page (click my yellow name). I like the idea.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:31:06 +0000

Great design for the analogue, but simply too much other stuff added in for my liking… I’d prefer just a watch…

Having said that, this looks great

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:57:46 +0000

Extremely cool even if you leave out the distance meter a very cool watch!

By: Samukun

Samukun — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:33:17 +0000

Thanks for your thought Keiron!

Hm, bringing it from the “it’s interesting”-level to the “we need it precisely”-level, I suggest a manual zero-point adjustment. So 0 can be in the case center (adding an indicator to the outside lets you place the watch accurately) or at the outer edge, where the sensor is. Maybe a strap release button would be wise, so the watch can be used more accurately. Oh yeah, I also thought about what smart phones already have, we didn’t even dream of years ago.

Oh successful, hehehe. 3.3 is pretty… neutral

By: Keiron

Keiron — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:20:17 +0000

Very interesting concept Sam, the “high vis” looks very industrial so I expect it would be suited to engineers and surveyors. (i would say builders but every builder I know only craves for designer watch brands) I currently use a laser measuring device when surveying buildings so could be useful there but not sure if the strap would create innacuracies? but altogether a very successful design. I wonder how long it will be before smart phones have this measuring feature..