It's Time. - Open Smartwatch

[ColinLTT]

 

If you build it, they (developers) will come - at least that’s the idea behind this open source smart watch.

 

Follow the project: https://www.instagram.com/pauls_3d_things/
Questions? Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/R68UQdUh
Want to build it? http://open-smartwatch.github.io/
Buy a dev board: https://geni.us/OpenSmartwatch

 

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Hackster.IO writeup: https://www.hackster.io/news/there-s-something-especially-impressive-about-the-opensmartwatch-project-c2c878b983cf

 

Really cool PCB explorer interactive tool: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Open-Smartwatch/open-smartwatch-light/blob/master/docs/bom/osw-light-ibom.html

 

[Padblaze]

No VAG today unfortunately

[Mr_Green444]

LTT,

 

This is awesome! I am a runner (have been for many years and even ran through college), coach and teacher. I would love to help with the GPS side of things with this watch for running, walking and biking.

 

let me know if I can be of assistance!

[Solidware]

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with 3D printing in the future, I'm a huge printing hobbiest. I made a forum account today specifically because I'm concerned about safety. Resin is very very nasty stuff, and when I saw this clip of bare hands on a build plate, my stomach flipped.

 

You're a huge influence! You have a  responsiblity to show safe handling of these chemicals!

Edited April 5, 2021 by Solidware
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[komar]

Can them titles and thumbnails become even more clickbaity? Asking for a friend...

[M.Stackoverflow]

Hi there!

 

The TTGO watch 2020 from LilyGo is prepackaged with an aluminum case, rubber wristband, capacitive touchscreen, motors, buzzer, and gyro. The framework is pretty easy to work with, 30$ only. The ESP32 is pretty power hungry in it's nature though. I'd like to see a slim version with GPS. 

 

 

 

It's nice to see more product for makers being available!

 

 

[poochyena]

i just don't see the point. why not just get a regular, non-smart, watch?

[DrBalanced]

I find the tone of this video really weird — this is supposed to be the story of a plucky developer with a dream of a smart watch that doesn’t automatically send your health and fitness data to a shady company to use for nefarious money-grubbing purposes. But that watch already exists, it’s called the Apple Watch. Literally all the health and fitness information it gathers is end to end encrypted and unreadable to Apple or anyone else unless you specifically opt in to health data sharing on an app-by-app basis. So why is Linus implying the opposite? And what exactly makes this smart watch more private than that? You can even disable Health data in iCloud and then your data never even leaves your device.

[SpookyZalost]

@DrBalanced because this watch doesn't send ANYTHING, it stores it locally. That by nature inherently makes it more secure than encrypted data moving over a network or between devices over a PAN.  I won't go into corporations vs people as a debate because that would just turn into a flame war but honestly this project reminds me a bit of the early days of the pebble watch, which I still use today albeit with Rebbel instead of the normal Pebble OS because they went under.  Like the pebble this watch supports writing apps in python which is great since it's fairly easy to pickup as a programming language.  And the fact that all the components are off the shelf is great because that not only lowers the cost of entry provided you have the skillset but means that if something goes wrong you can fix it instead of another tech device ending up in the landfill, and in our increasingly tech hungry world that is a very good thing.

What I look forward to is what apps people will write for it, because for a while the pebble too had it's own developer community, still does in some respects though not as big as it once was, and this even has a super long battery life just like the pebble.  This is sort of like if the pebble was a DIY project, you don't get the water resistance/proofing but you trade that for greater flexibility and open hardware as well as software.  I'm thinking about this in terms of a spiritual successor to the pebble given fitbit consumed pebble then basically took the tech and spread it into their fitbit devices only more closed and restrained.
and finally the price, you can get the light board for around $30 and have a case 3D printed for around $15 to $20 tops and sent to you or make your own for less. that's less than $60 for a smart watch which you can write code for and should be compatible with every device.

as a final note I would like to see that solar wristband project which was talked about for the pebble show up for the OSW/OSWL because that would be awesome... as in infinite never charge never fail watch technology.

[Dutch_Master]

2 hours ago, Mr_Green444 said:

 

let me know if I can be of assistance!

Contact the developer(s) directly, LMG has no affiliation with them nor is involved in any way (that I know of). Links in the description.

[Raphty]

Linus, I truly enjoyed this episode, I wanted to let you know this, I even (finally) created an account here for this comment!

I am checking out the developer right now, thanks for covering open source stuff as well!

[Granular]

At least you're using your cancerous clickbait powers for good this time.

[Granular]

15 hours ago, komar said:

Can them titles and thumbnails become even more clickbaity? Asking for a friend...

The answer may SHOCK you.

[Kadzo]

15 hours ago, poochyena said:

i just don't see the point. why not just get a regular, non-smart, watch?

How you don't get it, you can check time but with different backgrounds!!!!

 

just another device to keep mind of battery levels with fancy collors.

[M.Stackoverflow]

1 hour ago, Kadzo said:

How you don't get it, you can check time but with different backgrounds!!!!

 

just another device to keep mind of battery levels with fancy collors.

Nha, I actually wrote an app that is pretty useful for me.

 

See, when I train cardio, I don't want to have a bulky cellphone on me. Also, wrist heartbeat sensors are pretty bad by design.

 

I made an app that connects to my BLE chest heartbeat sensor and monitor if I stay in a certain zone, it then sends the data back to my phone (samsung Health), by mimicing a BLE sensor, so I can see the graph after the workout. the screen changes color for each cardio zone and sound alert me if I go over a set heartbeat. Thing is, If I go over 185 bpm for more than a minute or two, my body crashes and I want to puke. Since I'm used to short sprint and not long workout, I don't feel that my body is crashing until it does. This thing helps me stay at about 150bpm so I can train longer.

 

I didn't find any app on android that supports maintaining a certain cardio zone, and if I want to, I can use the app outside without my phone.

For 30$, I think it's pretty valuable!

 

If there was a way to have an SD card and a GPS, it would be way more useful. Unfortunately, the one that do are way to thick. As an armband, it could work though.

[ColinLTT]

20 hours ago, Solidware said:

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with 3D printing in the future, I'm a huge printing hobbiest. I made a forum account today specifically because I'm concerned about safety. Resin is very very nasty stuff, and when I saw this clip of bare hands on a build plate, my stomach flipped.

 

You're a huge influence! You have a  responsiblity to show safe handling of these chemicals!

I'm wearing gloves. They are white. We only had XS in stock (thanks covid) so they're just very tight. I'm no stranger to the dangers of resin printing. 

[Solidware]

2 hours ago, ColinLTT said:

I'm wearing gloves. They are white. We only had XS in stock (thanks covid) so they're just very tight. I'm no stranger to the dangers of resin printing. 

Indeed you are, I'm sorry my mistake! I'm Looking forward to future 3DPrinter content.