By @edent · arduino c++ HowTo tutorial watchy · 3 comments · 400 words · read ~258 times.
I am enjoying playing with the eInk Watchy. It is a cute package and is everything I want in a Smart-Watch; geeky, long battery life, and not obnoxious. But - fuck me! - the documentation is atrocious! Well, that's a lie. There is no documentation. It has the "Chat to us on Discord" anti-pattern that […]
Continue reading →By @edent · 2fa arduino eink security watchy · 4 comments · 500 words · read ~2,979 times.
Behold! Thanks to the power of the Watchy development platform, I now have all my 2FA codes available at the flick of my wrist! HOWTO This uses Luca Dentella's TOTP-Arduino library. You will need a pre-shared secret which is then converted into a Hex array. Use the OTP Tool for Arduino TOTP Library to get […]
Continue reading →By @edent · arduino eink watchy · 2 comments · 250 words · read ~261 times.
I have the new Watchy eInk watch. It has a cute little screen with a resolution of 200x200 pixels. How much text can we cram in there? A typical watch face looks like this: My new watch face is far superior and looks like this: That's using the GNU Unifont - which works brilliantly on […]
Continue reading →By @edent · 3d printing arduino coding hacking robot zowi · 300 words · read ~1,657 times.
Last week I was invited to attend a product launch by BQ. They're a small company based out of Spain who create some curiously innovative products - including smartphones which natively run Cyanogen. I'm particularly looking forward to reviewing their Ubuntu Tablet later in the year. The thing which really caught my eye was Zowi […]
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