Rsibreak, Break Reminder

RSI

Smartwatch

WearOS

Apple

Customization

3D printed cases

Shapeways

RSIBreak is a smartwatch app designed to prevent RSI injuries. It is compatible with WearOS and Apple alternatives, offering customization options such as 3D printed cases from Shapeways or DIY solutions on macOS. Additionally, alternatives like BreakTimer are available for various platforms.

Published

April 4, 2023

Smart Watch

do not mix the water with the watch. you have been warned.

Prefer WearOS watches like LG W100. Found 3D printable case on Shapeways but not downloadable. Shapeways provides service for printing. Shapeways builds ShapeJS which can construct 3D models with code.

Use Pixle2Mesh++ to recover 3D meshes from multiple images (dumped at ~/Desktop/works/shapeways_reconstruct_from_image_lg_w100)of different viewpoints. Determine the size of the mesh after measurement or learning specs.

if you want iwatch instead, remember to buy some apple gift cards for buying watchos apps. remember to ask for battery life since older watches tend to die halfway in a day. buy iphone 6s and newer models with ios 14 and newer os to manage and install apps on iwatch. no need for 3d modeling since plenty tough-tested cases around.

DIY

if you want to do it on your own, you have to know how to send notifications on different operating systems.

on macOS:

osascript -e 'display notification "This message should be showing on the notification" with title "Coding Tips"'

terminal-notifier (brew installable)

alerter

on linux:

notify-send "Dinner ready!"

using remind:

remind "I'm still here" now
remind "Time to wake up!" in 5 minutes
remind "Dinner" in 1 hour
remind "Take a break" at noon
remind "It's Friday pints time!" at 17:00

on windows:

msg /SERVER:DestinationPC * /TIME:60 “This is the message to be sent to a PC named DestinationPC and closes in 60 seconds."

notify-send-for-Windows (needs AHK)

tutorial

break reminder tools

RSIBreak is for linux, and it does not work well.

stretchly has an online version. on macOS make sure your browser is allowed to post notifications.

“Drink.” on mac app store is a water drinking reminder for macOS.

BreakTimer has windows, macOS and linux version. on linux you better use snap or appimage version.