Oh man how I hate steampunk.

I also came to hate on steampunk. Looks like the party got started without me.

I actually like everything else about the watch, but those… lens holders? Hideous.

“And did we mention the much more enticing steampunk case?”

dont you mean osgeld punk

its a cool watch but not something I would wear outside of a costume party

Steampunk seems kind of weird to wear on your body. I like the rest of it , though.

My Casio does more.

Is it just me or does he pronounce Arduino somewhat oddly?

Hackaday comments are starting to remind me of YouTube comments. Seems like every post is littered with how much people hate it or how much it sucks. A damn shame, really :(

@Jussi
The main purpose of the watch is to allow for various sensors to be connected to the watch and get feedback without being connected to computer. The Arduino has hundreds of libraries and projects to draw on in that development. And blog cred is nice, too :-)

@Edward5 and sinoth
Thanks, it’s like ads you tune them out.

I personally don’t care for it at all, but I think that it’s a great piece of work.

From a technical standpoint, the workmanship is excellent. The aesthetics however leave a good deal to be desired, but then that is something endemic to steam-punk.

The big problem I have with the steam-punk style is the decision to go clunky and large. It misrepresents the technical abilities of the real Victorians.

The Victorians prized functionality, which is why their inventions things were very industrial at times, but they would strive to miniaturize things as much as was practical.

The steam punk aesthetic seems more like gnome-punk to me. The dungeons and dragons gnomes.

Hollywood visions of the Victorian era be damned.

A lot of steampunk stuff is just dressup, but this is a nice little project that shows technical skill.

@greycode, they’re magnifying glasses. You swing them over the screen to get a better view at a different distance.

This thing is epic, albeit clunky

I like steampunk, but those magnifying glasses just look terribly “stuck on”, and completely out of place.

should have saved them for his goggles ;-) .

I really like the trackball thing and the idea of a color lcd watch with games and stuff.
But that’s all. The thing is hideous and impossible to wear in any circumstances. Even without the lenses it’s clunky. And heavy! It has that large battery, wooden frame, lots of leather, lots of pcb’s. If you want to do something small like a watch, don’t use the kit versions of the components! Use smd’s, all soldered on the same pcb. It’s going to be much smaller, and you won’t have that wire mess (instructables, step 11).
But again, I haven’t made a watch this complex before, so the guy is better than me :P

requesting a “after 1 day of actual use” photo.

Words like missing, bent, and broken come to mind.

Excellent craftsmanship! I’m impressed. Not quite my style, but to each their own. I really like the OLED screen. The capability to display a lot of data is possible, it’s not necessarily just a clock.
Weather, RSS feeds, etc etc.

Totally agree @MrTaco. My wristwatch is a helluva lot more convenient than digging my phone or ipod out of the pocket, and engaging its display somehow.

It would be a million times better without the two lens thingies sticking out.

@mihaliv
If you are interested email me either from my site or through instructables and I’ll see what I can do!

@fenwick Check out the instructable, the lenses are easy to put on or off :-)

@David I guess that’s what I get for doing video editing at 4AM. Next video I’ll have to fix that.

On the whole “who wears a watch” thread:
I saw that less people have been wearing watches (including myself) and thought, there is some real estate I can use for a project, so that is part of where the design started.