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They've open sourced what they can, but these third party bits had to be stripped out: - All of the system fonts - The Bluetooth stack, except for a stub that will function in an emulator - The STM peripheral library - The voice codec - ARM CMSIS - For the Pebble 2 HR, the heart rate monitor driver
It's worth noting that CMSIS itself is open source but some of the drivers for this hardware probably were not.
Don't say it often, but this is very nice of Google and they really didn't have to. Credit where it's due
This is cool! I remember receiving my first Pebble watch on kickstarter. I felt like I was in the future!
I wrote a blog post about our plans to bring Pebble back, sustainably. https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
We got our original start on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3827868), it's a pleasure to be back.
If you're interested in getting a new Pebble, check out https://rePebble.com
They've open sourced what they can, but these third party bits had to be stripped out: - All of the system fonts - The Bluetooth stack, except for a stub that will function in an emulator - The STM peripheral library - The voice codec - ARM CMSIS - For the Pebble 2 HR, the heart rate monitor driver
> - ARM CMSIS It's worth noting that CMSIS itself is open source but some of the drivers for this hardware probably were not.
To somebody who's completely out of the loop, hears about Pebble for the first time—why is this big news? Are we going to see novel software written for defunct hardware, or is the hardware going to evolve now that the software is open?
Thank you, Google. You didn't have to, but you did. We are all are extraordinarily grateful. I wrote a blog post about our plans to bring Pebble back, sustainably. https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back We got our original start on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3827868 ), it's a pleasure to be back. If you're interested in getting a new Pebble, check out https://rePebble.com