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Could Watchy be a smart ham watch?

Posted: 04 Mar 2021 08:37 AM PST
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In this mornings IEEE Spectrum Tech Alert, there was a link to an article
on Watchy, a $55 hackable smart watch, made by a company called Squarofumi.
According to the article:

Watchy is based around anÂ*ESP32Â*microcontroller, a popular alternative to
AVR- or Arm-based microcontroller because of its built-in Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth capabilities that can be programmed via the Arduino IDE.
Surrounding hardware includes a 1.5-inch e-paper display, a real-time clock
module, a vibration motor, a three-axis accelerometer, and four control
buttons.

Because its programmable, you can create your own watch face. The
Squarofumi website shows a number of these. Heres an example of three of
them:



Pretty neat, huh? Even neater is that you can program it to tell more than
time. The article goes on to say:

Watchy faces can be expanded beyond simply telling the time: The wireless
connection and a JSON parser library allow you to extract information from
online services about things such as the weather or subway arrival times,
and the accelerometer allows for gesture controls.

So, Im guessing that someone could program it to display the latest
propagation data, DX spots, and maybe APRS messages. In addition to using
the Arduino IDE to program Watchy, you can also program it with
Micropython, ESP-IDF, and Zephyr-RTOS. Get it from CrowdSupply.





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