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I'd love to have something that'd allow me to reply to voice messages on Signal or whatever platform I can hack on with a little bit of root.
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Why not? The plastic straw doesn't require rare earth metals, anywhere near as much plastic, silicone and other materials. Besides, it's been shown time and time again, eWaste is largely a farce, with majority of components being sent directly to landfills. Ounce per ounce, thousands of plastic straws are far better for the environment than a single Apple Watch.
An apple watch will end up in a landfill where it will lie for millenia harming nothing. Some of those plastic straws will get into the ocean, local parks, streams and on where they will harm wildlife. Landfills are not the worst thing in existence.
And it's well documented the ocean plastic problem is almost exclusively from fishing equipment [2].
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/business/plastic-straws-b...
[2] https://www.oceanographicmagazine.com/news/ghost-gear-greenp...
Wow, this article doesn't do it justice. Watchy is an open source hardware device that uses an e-ink display and has an ESP32 module builtin [0]. SQFMI, the creator of watchy, has a twitter account [1] which has some very nice screenshots [2] [3]. Even the CrowdSupply website has better pics of the device [4]. This is one of the few watches I've been sorely tempted to buy. [0] https://github.com/sqfmi/Watchy [1] http…
There is also a new Watchy community on Discord here: https://discord.gg/uKcfZZa2 For those considering purchasing - as a Watchy owner - if you're looking for a polished smartwatch product that you can put on your wrist and not think about how it works - this isn't that product. It's still rough around the edges, uploading new watchfaces takes some work, phone notifications aren't implemented yet, no case, etc. But i…
Why does this article not have any pictures of the watch? It only has renders, even though the author supposedly has one.
I'm the author of the article and the editor of the section: a while back we decided to use illustrations rather than photography for this section of IEEE Spectrum—it was a style choice, but it gives us more options in terms of showing components and process diagrams.
Locking yourself into only using real images or renders seems very limiting.
Maybe I'm a curmudgeon, but I have subzero interest in smartwatches, even hackable or open source models. I want my watch to tell me the time, and I want it to do so 10, 20, and 30 years from now without having to fiddle with software. I love Linux. I cut my teeth on it in high school after one too many viruses on Windows XP made me bite the bullet and try debian. I love my Raspberry Pi. It went from retro-gaming con…
Week-long battery and always-on screen are critical "watch" functionality that too many modern smartwatches fail on, and pebble succeeded on.
For me, it was a watch that I could get notifications on, including turn by turn directions which was super useful when cycling.
Very excited for something like this! I can think of a few fun projects to try that would be useful to me nearly everyday but are too trivial or niche for an Apple or a Samsung to ever spend time actually building. Some ideas off of the top of my head: - Vibrate a bunch and notify me on-screen if my usual commuter train is running late or cancelled (but only if I haven't left my house yet). Also the same, but in reve…
For another hackable smartwatch, see the PineTime. https://pine64.com/product/pinetime-dev-kit
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There is also a new Watchy community on Discord here: https://discord.gg/uKcfZZa2 For those considering purchasing - as a Watchy owner - if you're looking for a polished smartwatch product that you can put on your wrist and not think about how it works - this isn't that product. It's still rough around the edges, uploading new watchfaces takes some work, phone notifications aren't implemented yet, no case, etc. But i…
How's the battery charge duration?
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There is also a new Watchy community on Discord here: https://discord.gg/uKcfZZa2 For those considering purchasing - as a Watchy owner - if you're looking for a polished smartwatch product that you can put on your wrist and not think about how it works - this isn't that product. It's still rough around the edges, uploading new watchfaces takes some work, phone notifications aren't implemented yet, no case, etc. But i…
How's the battery charge duration?