First off, the big news: as you read this email, ALL Sensor Watch boards have been fully tested, packed, shipped and delivered to Mouser Electronics, Crowd Supply’s fulfillment partner. Even as we speak they’re counting them out and processing them in preparation for final shipping to backers and preorder…ers, I guess. This is all by way if saying if you haven’t done so already, now would be a good time to double check your shipping address!

首先，重大新闻：当你读到这封邮件时，所有的Sensor Watch电路板已经全部测试完毕、打包好、并已经寄送给Mouser Electronics，它是Crowd Supply的交付合作方。我猜，就在我写这篇更新的时候，他们正在清点处理这些电路板，完成最后一步准备工作，以发送给支持者和预购者等。顺便提醒下，请尽快仔细检查你的送货地址！如果你还没有做的话，现在还来得及！

There’s also a change to the stock firmware for these boards: since the temperature sensor was sold separately post-campaign, the stock firmware now comes with a stopwatch instead of a temperature watch face. If you bought a temperature sensor and want a temperature display, make sure to download a custom firmware that includes temperature features, and flash it onto your board before installing it.

出厂电路板的固件也有一个变化：由于温度传感器电路板是在众筹活动后单独出售的，所以现在的出厂固件带有一个秒表表盘，并没有温度表表盘。如果你买了温度传感器电路板并想要温度显示，请下载一个包含温度功能的专用固件，并在组装前将其刷进电路板。

I’m immensely grateful for your patience as we navigated this year of parts shortages. We planned to ship in October, and despite some delays and false starts, we got boards to nearly all backers in November. Now we’ll hopefully have all preorders fulfilled before winter draws to a close.

我实在是感谢你们的耐心，因为我们几乎经历了一年的元器件短缺。原本我们是计划在10月发货，后来尽管有一些延迟和错误，我们还是在11月向几乎所有众筹支持者发送了电路板。现在，我们有望在冬季结束前完成所有预购订单。

Sensor Watch was my first product built at any kind of scale, and building it during a historic parts shortage has definitely felt like playing the game on hard mode. Still, here at the end of it, we’ll have shipped nearly 3,000 objects to folks: 1,454 Sensor Watch boards and 1,454 temperature sensor boards. I’ve also learned a ton about what it takes to launch a product — and on that note, this post is going to dive into a couple of lessons learned. By the end, I’m going to set forth a road map for two new versions of Sensor Watch that I hope to make available next year.

Sensor Watch是我生平第一次制作一款产品，尤其是在空前绝后的元器件短缺期间制造它，绝对像是在玩困难模式的游戏。尽管如此，在众筹结束的时候，我们已经向人们发送了近3000件物品：1454块Sensor Watch电路板和1454块温度传感器电路板。我也学到了很多关于推出产品所需的知识--在这方面，这篇文章将深入探讨一些经验教训。在本文最后，我要为Sensor Watch制定一个路线图，以讨论我打算在明年推出的两个新版本。

But first: a battery life update.

但首先：电池寿命的最新消息。

Year-long battery life confirmed!

长达一年的电池寿命确认了!

When Sensor Watch launched, the project page claimed a battery life of “1 Year (estimated)”. We can remove that “estimated” now: the first test watch with the old 2021 firmware crossed day 365 last month, with battery life to spare!

当Sensor Watch推出时，项目页面声称其电池寿命为 "1年（估计）"。我们现在可以去掉这个 "估计 "了：上个月，第一只使用旧的2021年固件的测试手表已经度过了第365天，并且电池寿命还有余量！

As I write this update, that gray watch is still going strong at day 395, running on that same coin cell I installed last November. This is especially great news because the NEW firmware, which shipped with every Sensor Watch dating to the first blue boards, is significantly more efficient than that old build was. 290 days into the test of the new firmware, the second test watch is still at 3.06 volts, which signals that Sensor Watch should last well over one year on a CR2016 coin cell.

在我写这篇更新的时候，那块灰色的手表已经395天了依然坚挺，使用的还是我去年（指2021年 - 译者注）11月份安装的那块纽扣电池。这是一个特别好的消息，因为新版的固件，即从第一块蓝色Sensor Watch电路板开始，都比旧版本的固件有 绝对更好 的运行能效。在对新固件进行测试的290天后，这第二块测试手表的电压仍然是3.06伏，这表明Sensor Watch在CR2016纽扣电池上的寿命应该远远超过一年。

Department of Lessons Learned

经验教训

At this time last year, I had shipped perhaps a dozen Sensor Watch boards to early beta testers. As of today, we’ve shipped nearly 1,500 of them. That’s 1,500 boards manufactured by PCBWay, assembled by Cyber City Circuits, and tested, packed and shipped by me personally, plus 1,500 temperature sensor boards hand-assembled by yours truly.

去年（指2021年 - 译者注）的这个时候，我已经向早期的测试者发送了大约十几块Sensor Watch电路板。到今天为止，我们已经发送了近1500块。这1500块电路板是由PCBWay制造的，然后由Cyber City Circuits组装，并最终由我亲自测试、包装和发运，另外再加上1500块温度传感器电路板也是由“诚挚的”我亲手一一组装的。

Question: why did I do all that work myself?

问题：我为什么要亲自做这些工作？

Answer: I wanted to hit an affordable price point with Sensor Watch, so I asked my PCBA partner to quote me a price for assembling the Sensor Watch panels, and nothing more. It fell to me to depanel the boards, test them, flash them, pack them and ship them. It was slow going at first. With time, I streamlined a lot of it: built a tester for the buttons and the LCD, and a second one for the 9-pin connector. By the end I could take 300 boards from panels to individually bagged boards in a day.

答案是：我想要低到一个可承受的价格。我想让Sensor Watch低到一个可承受的价格点，所以我要求我的PCBA合作商给我一个组装Sensor Watch拼板的价格，不要他们做其他工序。我自己负责拆拼板、测试、刷固件、包装和发运。一开始流程做起来很慢，但是随着时间的推移，我简化了很多工作：为按钮和LCD建立一个测试器，为9针连接器建立第二个测试器。到最后，我可以在一天内把300块板子从未拆开的拼板做成一个个完工的电路板，并装袋待发运。

The problem is this: if shipping 3,000 watch and sensor boards takes two weeks out of my year, Sensor Watch is not sustainable. I need to be able to give all that work to someone else going forward, and that means I need to add their labor to the cost of the gadget. That means either raising the price, or figuring out how to streamline the design even further.

问题是：如果发送3000块Sensor Watch电路板和传感器板需要花费我一年中的两个星期，那么Sensor Watch项目就不可持续。我需要将来能够把所有这些工作交给别人来做，这就意味着我需要把他们的劳动力加入到成本中。这也意味着要么提高价格，要么想办法进一步精简设计。

So we’re doing both, in the form of two new versions of Sensor Watch planned for next year:

因此，我们正在做这两件事，计划在明年推出两个新版本的Sensor Watch：

I’m tentatively calling these two designs “Sensor Watch Lite” and “Sensor Watch Pro”.

我暂且称这两个设计为 "Sensor Watch Lite "和 "Sensor Watch Pro"。

Sensor Watch Lite

This version of Sensor Watch is the quickest way to get more watch boards manufactured and in people’s hands. It makes a handful of changes to ensure that the device is both more affordable to manufacture, and simpler to test:

这个版本的Sensor Watch是让更多的手表电路板以最快的方式被生产出来并送到人们手中。我把它做了一些改变，以确保它的制造成本更低，测试也更简单。

• This version of Sensor Watch removes the 9-pin connector, which required a time-consuming testing step.

  这个版本的Sensor Watch 取消了9针连接器，因为它需要一个耗时的测试步骤。

• Rather than leave you sensor-less, this version moves the temperature sensor onto the board itself, which means one test for both the board and the temperature sensor.

  这个版本不是让你没有传感器，而是将温度传感器转移到电路板上，这意味着可以一次就完成对电路板以及温度传感器测试。

• With the newfound space, I can also put the Reset button on the front side, eliminating costly 2-sided assembly.

  同时，因为有了新腾出来的空间，我还可以把复位按钮放在正面，避免了昂贵的双面装配。

These changes should lower manufacturing costs and improve manufacturing yield. The hope is that this will allow us to keep a very similar price point to the original watch + temperature sensor combo, while delivering the same base features. This version will also be code-compatible with the original Sensor Watch, so you’d still be able to use any firmware built for the Sensor Watch “green boards”.

这些变化应该会降低制造成本，提高制造产量。希望这可以使我们既能提供相同的基本功能，又能保持与原来的Sensor Watch加温度传感器组合非常接近的价位。这个版本也将与原始的Sensor Watch代码兼容，所以你仍然能够使用为Sensor Watch “绿色版电路板 "构建的任何固件。

I think this design solves the 90% use case of “I want a Casio F-91W, but a little smarter”. If you just want the sunset and the moon phase on your wrist, this board gets you there. If you want more detailed alarms and a countdown timer, this board gets you there. If you want to log temperatures on camping trips, this board gets you there.

我认为这种设计解决了90%的使用情况，即 "我想要一个卡西欧F-91W，但更聪明一点"。如果你只想在手腕上看到日落和月相，这块板子可以满足你的要求；如果你想要更复杂的闹钟和倒计时器，这块板子可以满足你的要求；如果你想记录露营时的温度，这块板子可以满足你的要求。

Of course, the promise of Sensor Watch was that 9-pin connector, the idea that you could add other sensors for light or sound or motion. I’m not giving up on that. That’s just where Sensor Watch Pro comes in.

当然，Sensor Watch的前途是9针连接器，你可以籍此添加其他的光线、声音或运动传感器。我不会放弃这个想法，这就是Sensor Watch Pro的意义所在。

Sensor Watch Pro

The thinking: let’s accept that this version of the board is going to have to cost more to account for the the extra labor involved. Let’s use that as an opportunity to do more with it!

我的想法是：因为其所涉及的额外工序，我们接受这个版本的板子将比较贵。既然如此，不如利用这个机会来做更多的事情吧!

This version of Sensor Watch would probably come later in the year, and while I don’t have a final design for it, my hope is to be able to add a third color to the LED (RGB instead of RG). It’ll also have that 9-pin connector for additional sensor boards, some of which folks are already sharing in the Sensor Watch Discord.

这个版本的Sensor Watch可能会在明年（指2023年 -译者注）晚些时候推出，虽然我还没有最终的设计，但我希望能够在LED上添加第三种颜色（红绿蓝而不是红绿）。它还会有那个9针连接器，用于连接额外传感器电路板，不少人已经在Sensor Watch Discord讨论组中分享案例了。

To be clear: it will be a few months before these boards are available for sale. This first batch of Sensor Watch boards is likely to sell out by the end of the week, and I probably can’t get more chips until summer. But when that time comes, both PCBWay, Cyber City Circuits and I will be ready to get cracking on another production run.

我还没有一个最终的设计，也没有一个最终的价位。但我知道这块板子是可行的，因为它与我们刚做完的板子非常相似！我只需要设计一套流程以指导别人把它设计出来，测试好，我还需弄明白我得付多少钱让他们干这些活。

State of the Movement

机芯（固件）的状况

SO MUCH has happened with Sensor Watch since last I reached out. Nearly all backers have received their boards, and that means a bunch of folks have assembled theirs and begun contributing to Movement, the community firmware for Sensor Watch. That means new watch faces:

自从我上次更新之后，Sensor Watch发生了很多事情：几乎所有的众筹认购者都收到了电路板，这意味着很多人已经组装好了他们的电路板，并开始为机芯Movement（Sensor Watch的社区固件）作出贡献，这意味着更多新的表盘功能。

• A new alarm_face by Andreas Nebinger implements SIXTEEN deeply configurable alarms that can fire on weekdays, weekends or specific days, and with different tones!

  安德烈亚斯·内宾格（Andreas Nebinger）设计的新闹钟表盘实现了19个可深入配置的闹钟，可以在工作日、周末或特定的日子响起，并且有不同的音调！

• David Singleton’s new ratemeter_face lets you press the alarm button to calculate a rate, which is useful both for cadence tracking in athletics, and for BPM counting in music.

  大卫·辛格尔顿（David Singleton）的速率表表盘（ratemeter_face）可以让你按下闹钟按钮来计算速率，这对于田径运动中的节奏跟踪和音乐中的BPM计数都很有用。

• We’ve also added a second TOTP face by James Haggerty that allows you to upload TOTP keys via the USB serial console.

  我们还增加了James Haggerty的第二个TOTP表盘，允许你通过USB串行控制台上传TOTP密钥。

There are also a TON of bug fixes and quality of life improvements, nearly all of them the work of community members:

另外还有大量的错误修复和质量改进，几乎都是社区成员的贡献：

• The buttons are now more responsive, eliminating a slight delay that was happening after pressing the Mode button.

  按下按钮的反应现在更灵敏了，我们降低了按下模式按钮后出现的轻微延迟。

• The long press event now automatically fires after a second, which is much more intuitive.

  长按事件现在会在一秒钟后自动触发，这比以往更直观了。

• A long press on the Mode button now returns to the first watch face, which is convenient if you have a bunch of watch faces installed.

  长按模式按钮现在可以返回到第一个手表表盘，如果你安装了很多个表盘的话，这很方便。

• The bell and signal icons now match the behavior of a stock F-91W: the bell icon displays when the hourly chime is enabled, and the signal icon displays when an alarm is set.

  铃声和信号图标现在与原版F-91W的行为一致：铃声图标在启用整点报时时显示，信号图标在有闹钟设置时显示。

• We also fixed a rare bug that caused incorrect display of the sunrise and sunset in the last 30 seconds of the hour.

  我们还修复了一个罕见的错误，即在每小时的最后30秒内导致日出和日落显示不正确。

Curious how you can get in on this firmware development action? Join the movement at the Sensor Watch Discord community! Now that all the boards have shipped, I’m planning to spend my holidays reviewing a ton of community pull requests, which are set to bring new features like a week number face, a better stopwatch, new interval timers and even a calculator (!!) to the humble F-91W.

是不是很期待如何才能参与到固件开发行动中？请加入Sensor Watch Discord社区的活动吧! 现在所有的板子都已经发货了，我打算利用假期审核来自社区的大量合并请求，这些请求将为简陋的F-91W带来更新的功能，如周数表盘，更好的秒表，新的间隔计时器，甚至还有计算器！！

Again, I’m just blown away by the creativity that the Sensor Watch community has brought to this project. It’s exceeded my expectations in every way, and looking toward 2023, I’m stoked to be able to ship more hardware and keep the story going.

我再次被Sensor Watch社区为本项目带来的创造力所震惊。它在各方面都超出了我的预期，展望2023年，我很期望能够发送出更多的硬件，把这个故事继续下去。

Watch this space.

咱们走着瞧。

- Joey 乔伊

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