Recreated my favorite watch!
(not a watch face seller, just excited about my first big watch face studio project)
Many many.... many moons ago, the love of my life got me a 01 The One Samui Moon first gen binary watch. I love that watch and still have it some 20 years later, but the LEDs have dimmed or gone out, and the buttons don't press crisply like they used to.
With the company out of business and repair parts few and scattered to the wind, I decided to try to recreate it on my 5pro!
I know this part will be controversial, but I think it's the perfect use for AI. I fed chatgpt a hi-res picture of the watch and it removed the glass glare, bezel, band, etc so I had a base png of the circuit board to work with and one glowing LED.
Programming was easier than expected. Binary on/off for each light was achieved by using the % operator, which gives you the remainder after division. Divide an hour or minute by 2 repeatedly, and the instances that give a remainder happen to mark when you need to add an "on" bit in the binary byte. Y'know what, I'll edit in a link here when I get to my computer for those who are interested.
Blue is my favorite color and that's what my original watch LEDs are, but this is a smart watch now, so next steps are to add different LED color options!
If you read this far, thanks for joining me in my excitement!