Apple Watch Sensors questions

[gcaudillo]

Hi, most of the webpages I've visited it says the following about built-in AppleWatch's sensors:

Sensors: accelerometer, built-in heart rate sensor

Does anyone know if the Apple Watch also have a magnetometer and gyroscope? also, Where can I find the specs of these sensors?

Thanks

 

[cmChimera]

Has a gyroscope, and an ambient light sensor as well. I don't believe it has a magnetometer.

 

[kdarling]

Besides a compass, one sensor that would've been handy is a barometric one.

It could've been used to tell when we went up and down stairs.

Of course, since the main circuit board is potted in resin, they'd have either needed to make a hole for it, or put it with the blood pulse LEDs board.

 

[troop231]

Besides a compass, one sensor that would've been handy is a barometric one.

It could've been used to tell when we went up and down stairs.

Of course, since the main circuit board is potted in resin, they'd have either needed to make a hole for it, or put it with the blood pulse LEDs board.

I cannot wait for the iFixit teardown and S1 dissection! How about you?

 

[Julien]

I cannot wait for the iFixit teardown and S1 dissection! How about you?

I can't wait for the Edition teardown and then the 'will it blend'.

 

[Lennyvalentin]

I can't wait for the Edition teardown and then the 'will it blend'.

"Gold dust. Don't breathe this!"

 

[Julien]

"Gold dust. Don't breathe this!"

Actually if blended Au would probably be the most benign chemical dust emitted.

 

[Mascots]

Actually if blended Au would probably be the most benign chemical dust emitted.

Probably still want to avoid huffing blended  Watch, though :3

Unless you're on the wild side.

 

[Lennyvalentin]

Actually if blended Au would probably be the most benign chemical dust emitted.

Possibly not, it would depend on the size of gold particles... Nanometer scale gold particles are quite toxic I recall reading somewhere, and larger still sized particles would probably damage your lungs in a similar way to say, pneumoconiosis. Also, there'd be tons of other potentially bad powders in a blended Apple Watch, plastics and various metals, epoxy resin, glass fiber from the circuit board, chemicals from the battery and so on, not to mention the sapphire and zirconium components...

So yeah, don't inhale your Apple Watch!

 

[Julien]

...Also, there'd be tons of other potentially bad powders in a blended Apple Watch, plastics and various metals, epoxy resin, glass fiber from the circuit board, chemicals from the battery and so on, not to mention the sapphire and zirconium components...

This is what I'm referring to as being worse than the Au.