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Now updated to be running the VERY BEST watch face.
#sqfmi #Watchy

Watch face from https://github.com/b-bayport/watchy_captnwednesday but if like me you've got one of the recent Watchys you'll need to make a few minor changes to settings.h. I'll push my fork/changes to a repo at some point soonish.

The Tin-Tin meme where Captain Haddock says "What a week huh?" and Tin TIn replies "Captain, it's Wednesday" except that this is on a watch face and is updated dynamically. So currently it shows "Captain, it's Monday" because today is in fact Monday.

The current date, time, and pitiful number of steps I've taken today are also displayed.

I couldn't wait until the weekend. It took probably no more than 30 minutes to actually assemble the watch. No soldering, just clicking a few bits into place.

I'll play with customisation and stuff later.
#SQFMI #watchy

A Watchy watch showing the default screen, being worn on a wrist. There is a Fitbit next to it. For scale, or just because I was too lazy to take it off? You decide!

Putting this together should keep me happily amused this weekend. #SQFMI #Watchy

Me holding a (so far unopened) box containing the SQFMI Watchy kit. This is an open source watch based on an ESP32 processor and an e-ink display. Yes it's Big Person's Toys but I'm an adult and I want my toys, damn it!

Why do all the stock photos of the #SQFMI #Beepy have the keyboard blurred out? Are they using some keyboard they’re not allowed to? Did they change keyboards since they took the stock photos?

Hm, I'd really like a Watchy by SQFMI, but it appears to be sold out. I thought about ordering PCBs and soldering my own, but I noticed some of the components are obsolete or on backorder.

Should I update the PCB and have my own made, or try pre-ordering on Crowd Supply and wait? 🤔

Asking the important questions today.

https://watchy.sqfmi.com/

#sqfmi #watchy #maker #pcb

Who’s happy to have a #SQFMI #Beeper? A linux powered device that brings back the Blackberry feelings? I am :)

The SQFMI Beeper and battery. A device that combines a Raspberry Zero W, a blackberry keyboard, a nice screen.

The Beeper and it’s battery. Still sealed in plastic.

Ah. The memories. A screen. A blackberry keyboard. The fun it will bring!

That's one way to use surplus #Blackberry keyboards! Looking forward to getting this set up. #Beeper #SQFMI

The front of a Sqfmi Beeper, with lcd display and Blackberry keyboard.

The rear of a Sqfmi Beeper, with Raspberry Pi and battery.

Beepy, a palm-sized linux hacking playground.
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/07/review-beepy-a-palm-sized-linux-hacking-playground/

#Hackaday #Linux #SQFMI #Hacking

Review: Beepy, A Palm-sized Linux Hacking Playground https://hackaday.com/2023/08/07/review-beepy-a-palm-sized-linux-hacking-playground/ #Beepy.BeepBerry #handheldshacks #SharpMemoryLCD #CurrentEvents #openhardware #blackberry #Featured #Reviews #SQFMI

The #beepy is the ultimate #fidgetToy, and it’s extensible :-)
(How did I forget about the tactile joy of using a BB-keyboard and when will I add some rotary switches and buttons to the device?)
#beepberry #sqfmi

The #beepy is an extremely cute device to tinker with. It now needs #Lora and a small scroll wheel - at least that was my plan :-)
(and some screws…)
#beepberry #sqfmi

A device of about the size of a blackberry with a blackberry keyboard in a FDM printed, white case.
The case has some empty holes for screws at the corners and is held shut by a cable tie.

I can‘t sleep, so I may as well post a picture of the #beepberry that arrived today…
#beepy #sqfmi

Photo of a circuit board with a blackberry keyboard and a display of about the same size.

I suspect one of the greatest barriers to entry for things like Arduino and microprocessor related projects is the fact that you have to come to the table with a certain level of tenacity, stubbornness, and a willingness to tinker even when you meet failure after failure. I picked up a #Watchy from #SQFMI (in part to slake my thirst for a Beepberry which are all sold out), and as detailed as the instructions are, many of them seem to be out of date. I attempted to get it set up in Arduino IDE, and get one of the sample sketches uploaded to the watch, and it failed. And failed in a way that Google is not being helpful.
On the flip side of this, there is this theory that the latest generations of folks didn't have the perspective of this futile yelling in the void over technology that was pieced together from bubble gum and duct tape that most of geek GenX experienced, but these projects are a great way to build it. Mostly by flattening your forehead on your desk.

I'm working on a motorcycle themed multi-watchface for my Watchy and I'm having a really hard time putting this one down... prolly end up being one of those never really finished projects. I would really love to add feature where it can show turn-by-turn navigation from OpenStreetMap but I'm not sure I'll ever have the skills to get that far

#Watchy #sqfmi #watchface
#NeverEndingProject
#motorcycle #motorcycles

A customized Watchy watchface stylized to be a motorcycle speedometer face. Hours on top labeled as MPH with a needle pointing to the hour of day across a 180 degree arc. On the lower half is another 180 degree arc, but this one is labeled RPM and the needle points to the minute of the hour. In the middle is a numeric counter that displays the Date in YYMMDD format with a decimal value at the end representing the decimal hour of the day.

Watchy watch on a wrist displaying the Speedometer themed watchface in dark-mode with the black and white values inverted

This Watchy project has turned out to be a totally refreshing creative outlet for me. I’m loving the form factor and constraints imposed by the black & white 200x200 screen.
I’ve been tinkering and designing obsessively with it all week and even managed to get this Captn Wednesday face pushed out to GitHub and a corresponding pat-on-the-back from the SQFMI🤠

https://github.com/b-bayport/watchy_captnwednesday

#IDidAThing #OpenSourceHardware #Watchy
#sqfmi #IndustrialDesign

A customized Watchy watchface showing a modified Tintin comic with Captain Haddock looking tired next to a pint of beer. His word bubble reads what ‘What a week huh?’ With Tintin on the left, his word bubble is now updated to include the day of the week. In the meme, his bubble reads ‘Captain it’s Wednesday’, but on this watch it updates daily and in the pic reads ‘Captain it’s Friday’ as the photo was taken on Friday. The battery meter is located in the beer glass in front of Snowy who is Tintin’s dog and faithful sidekick.

I think I’m gonna make this Watchy a dedicated handlebar clock. I’m digging the fit test. Will be cool to have it cycle thru various screens.

#Watchy #OpenSourceHardware #sqfmi
#motorcycle

A Watchy watch with a motorcycle themed watch face mounted on a motorcycle’s handlebars

I didn’t know what I was doing… but did it anyways, and managed to hack together this motorcycle themed watch face that I think turned out pretty alright

#MakeYourselfBerforeYouWreckYourself
#watchy #sqfmi #ESP32 #OpenSourceHardware
#motorcycle #motorcycles

A motorcycle themed watch face on an open source digital watch called Watchy that uses a black and white e-ink display

My Watchy open source hardware watch thing arrived and uh it was pretty distracting today. Kinda intriguing. I got this Tetris themed watch face loaded on it and now I really want to have an actual old school Tetris game watch. Instead this thing is just an aesthetic e-ink watch face with big chunky buttons that don’t do much besides setting the time, it’s a little bittersweet

#Watchy #sqfmi #OpenSourceHardware

#sqfmi

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