Attack Of The Beepy Clones In the Blackberry-keyboard-based project lineage story last week, I covered how a series of open-source projects turned into Beepy, a cool Linux PDA with a lively community. To me, it’s …read more

Keypad, 5-way switch, I²C display, Arduino Nano, and keypad. Under the keypad, a CH32v003 board and a 74HC595.

Wire wrapping on the board

So I'm going to try to put this all together. I'll set the keypad and the #CH32v003 up as an I²C target, with an Arduino Nano as I²C controller, which will also drive the display. We'll follow the same protocol as the I²C puppet firmware used by the #SQFMI #Beepy.

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.

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 […]

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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!

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

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!

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