
I
got my first watch when I was 8. It was a
Turkish Railroad pocket watch and I can
remember popping open the back cover to
peek at the wheels ticking away inside. I spent
the next two years saving my pocket money for a
Casio outdoor watch. The possibility of reading
weather conditions and tracking elevation
during hikes with my parents was simply
mind-boggling to me: How could such a tiny
device do all this?
Fascinated by technology, I went on to study
computer science and work as a software
developer. I stumbled across microcontrollers
and Arduinos during university, but always
saw them as big and clunky boards, perfect for
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