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Re:Quest for My Perfect Watch by fxtentacle on Monday November 21, 2022 @03:14AM (#33690118)
When I built my smartwatch, I went with ESP32-PICO and bluetooth low energy for connecting to my phone. Battery lifetime is excellent, but not quite a year because I poll weather data over wifi once every 10 minutes.
Re:Quest for My Perfect Watch by sho_nuff on Monday November 21, 2022 @08:31AM (#33692257)
What type of screen did you settle on for your smartwatch?
Re:Quest for My Perfect Watch by fxtentacle on Monday November 21, 2022 @03:32PM (#33697536)
Waveshare eink. They had the power supply schematics and driver source code on their homepage, which seemed convenient.