My priorities have always been clear: hackability, repairability, and privacy over convenience and luxury.

So for my wife and I's wedding, I wanted to add a few customizations to my Watchy to celebrate the ocassion. I simply changed some images and added some files to the InkWatchy firmware.

Next step: adding a count-up timer from our wedding date to the main watchface.

#BenAndBer #Watchy #InkWatchy #eink

I played around with my watchy after getting it last month. Almost immediately destroyed the eink screen. AliExpress saved me with that one.
I want a quick reference of time on my desk and this fits the bill!
I'm also looking forward to the new pebble watches!
#Watchy #esp32 #3Dprinting

@seav I do feel like I need to get one, only because we had a work engineering team face-to-face meet-up, and I was the only one without a smartwatch!
I'm thinking of going for one of the geeky highly programmable but not highly usable #opentech options (I was one of these people admiring the e-ink #watchy https://mastodon.social/@Edent/110666790594938682 , but maybe the Pi Bangle.js is more my level)

@abosio @kev very retro cool

seems kinda pricey, considering my #Watchy was $60 and turns a lot of heads.

https://sqfmi.com/watchy/

Got myself a Watchy (v2.0 clone off Aliexpress) and slapped a 803040 1000mah battery on it for the lols, so designed a shell and strap for it.

Also uploaded it to Thingiverse if anyone else with one of these wants to make one: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6971561
#watchy #diy #3dprinting

woops bought a #watchy and now I'm back on mastodon

If anyone's interested, I've listed my #Watchy epaper watch on ebay (UK).

I bought it and didn't realise it would look quite so large on my thin wrists, nor that I wouldn't have the time to get geeky with it.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156700451005

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.

And since I already brought my tools, I ended the day in true techie-fashion by dismantling my Watchy e-paper watch by @sqfmi to figure out why some of the buttons don't work. To my surprise, it's not worn-out buttons, it's CORROSION. AAAH!

I also love how the back side of the e-paper display has inverted colours.

Anyways, time for bed.

#FOSDEM #Watchy #eInk #ePaper #Smartwatch

Pushing the Watchy to the limit by bringing it all the way to the Arctic! Rather surprised with how well the E-Ink screen is performing, even when the temperature fell down to -10°C earlier.

#watchy #eink #watch

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

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

#Watchy update:

Managed to get a strap to fit in the 'slim' case. Have installed Brainworks for watchy which allows you to have multiple watch faces with dark/light modes too. Have edited which ones i want on it & removed the step counter. I think the Casio one looks good. #arduino #esp32

Its pretty chonky (compared to pixel 1), but just as light. Ive got a 'slim' case but i didn't like squashing it into it #watchy #foss

New toy #watchy #foss

One last blog post to close out 2024!

Talking about my experiences, recommendations, and future plans with Watchy, an open-source basic E-Ink smartwatch:
https://meander.site/my-watchy/

#watchy #epaper #opensource #eink #watch #hardware #esp32

Hittade min #Watchy som försvann i somras. Har lyckats få den att vara uppkopplad via mobil hotspot, men den verkar tro att jag är i New York?

Skulle vara kul om jag får till den, minns inte exakt vad problemet var i somras, bara att det inte funkade.

Kanske har den skärpt sig av att bli bortglömd?

Wrote up my lil watchy dev project as a blog post.
#esp32 #watchy
http://claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2024/12/watchy/

I made some tiny tweaks to my Cistercian numerals watch face. The date and step count numerals are now just a little bit bolder, and there's finally a way to see the remaining battery power on screen: that thin black border around the edge will gradually shrink into the corners as it drains.

I finally thought to take a photo towards the end of the day when the time numeral is fairly complex!
#ESP32 #CPP #Watchy #watch #Cistercian #CistercianNumerals #programming #microcontroller

My Cistercian watch face is basically finished! I've added numerals for date and step count, and tweaked the style of the diagonal lines (though I may tinker with that further). The one thing left is to add some way of displaying remaining battery life, but that'll likely be a bar rather than a numeral. Amusingly, this is two years to the day since my previous attempt at this project: https://damonwakes.itch.io/hibernation-hassle
#ESP32 #CPP #Watchy #watch #Cistercian #CistercianNumerals #programming #microcontroller