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  • Yay, I wanted to do the same - glad someone did work on it and shared it! Thanks! Although I think what I've learned is that I actually don't like wrist bands, so... yeah.
    by _def
  • Any other recommendations for fun and cheap devices with open firmware? (Or easily customized with LLMs in other ways?)
    by yreg
  • really hoping someday soon "AI" enables the ability to have an open-source $100 Garmin clone

    Coros and Amazfit especially got close but they are closed development even though they push features and bug-fixes daily to compete in the market

    there has a to be a single or maybe 2,3 chip solution for known desired features, dual-band GPS, AMOLED screen, full five physical buttons, ANT+BLE+WIFI radios, and enough RAM+storage to not worry about hyper-efficiency anymore

    by ck2
  • > The watch can’t hold this whole image in memory at once; it has to stream it from the file system.

    I really do wish the pinetime had more RAM; it's really really small and a pretty painful bottleneck.

    Edit: Oh, once the "pro" version is out I guess there's an easy answer to that: https://pine64.org/2026/03/28/pinetime_march_2026/

    by yjftsjthsd-h
  • > Although I’ve been saying “Claude”, I actually did most of the work in OpenCode with some of my favorite open weights models. Kimi K3 & K2.6, and DeepSeek v4 Pro & Flash.

    Interesting, is Claude becoming the Kleenex of the agent world?

    by wxw
  • It's interesting to think how nearly-e-waste level hardware could combine with something [home-cooked](https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/) to be really cool, especially for folks who might have been intimidated by this kind of development before.
    by kixiQu
  • I launched Claude on my pebble watch face software some time ago. It was also great fun to see it rejuvenate a 10-year old obsolete code base and make it work very well on the latest pebble Time 2 watches now available (finally!) today.

    https://apps.repebble.com/bitcoin-and-weather_38d93227474b40...

    https://github.com/yodalf/coincan

    by realo
  • One of my favorite cheap tech finds is a no-name, small OLED smartwatch that cost under $20. It has all the basic fitness features, an app that is surprisingly nicely done, and it exposes all its data to Apple Health.

    It supports the limited notifications API that Apple exposes, so it buzzes for calls and can show you text messages you got. Does music control, raise to wake. And somehow with all of this, it has a battery life of about 10-15 days on a charge. Unbelievable that the Apple Watch adds really only two important features I care about (making your iPhone beep, and Apple Pay) but only lasts a single day on a charge, and costs nearly 10x what this one does.

    Anyway, it also comes with about 100 choices of faces. I only wish it was open source or at least an "open" platform so that I could make my own.

    by xp84

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