Collaborate Disseminate
By Carolina
With smartwatches designed especially for kids being available now, parents
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[Max K] has been testing the battery life of his self-designed watch under real-world conditions. Six months later, the nominally 3 V, 160 mAh CR2025 cell is reading 2.85 V, so the end is near, but that’s quite a feat for a home-engineered smart watch.
We’ve tipped our hats to the Chronio before in this Hacklet, but now that the code is available, as well as the sweet 3D-printed case files, it’s time to make your own. Why? It looks sweet, it plays a limited version of Flappy Bird (embedded below), and six month’s on a button cell is a …read more
Smartwatches are pretty great. In theory, you’ll never miss a notification or a phone call. Plus, they can do all kinds of bio-metric tracking since they’re strapped to one of your body’s pulse points. But there are downsides. One of the major ones is that you end up needing two hands to do things that are easily one-handed on a phone. Now, you could use the tip of your nose like I do in the winter when I have mittens on, but that’s not good for your eyes. It seems that the future of smartwatch input is not in available …read more
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Do you know what a smartwatch is for? The answer’s finally starting to become clear. The post What if We Told You Smartwatches Are Actually Getting Good appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading What if We Told You Smartwatches Are Actually Getting Good
Building your own smartwatch is a fun challenge for the DIY hobbyist. You need to downsize your electronics, work with SMD components, etch your own PCBs and eventually squeeze it all into a cool enclosure. [Igor] has built his own ESP8266-based smartwatch, and even though he calls it a wrist display – we think the result totally sells as a smartwatch.
His design is based on a PCB for a wireless display notifier he designed earlier this year. The design uses the ESP-12E module and features an OLED display, LEDs, tactile switches and an FT232R USB/UART interface. Our beloved TP4056 …read more
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Building your own smartwatch is a fun challenge for the DIY hobbyist. You need to downsize your electronics, work with SMD components, etch your own PCBs and eventually squeeze it all into a cool enclosure. [Igor] has built his own ESP8266-based smartwatch, and even though he calls it a wrist display – we think the result totally sells as a smartwatch.
His design is based on a PCB for a wireless display notifier he designed earlier this year. The design uses the ESP-12E module and features an OLED display, LEDs, tactile switches and an FT232R USB/UART interface. Our beloved TP4056 …read more
Continue reading DIY Smartwatch Based On ESP8266 Needs Classification
As your day-to-day apparel and accessories are turning into networked mobile electronic devices that attach to your body like smartwatch or fitness band, the threat to our personal data these devices collect has risen exponentially.
A recent study from Binghamton University also suggests your smartwatch or fitness tracker is not as secure as you think – and it could be used to steal your ATM
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Samsung’s new fitness tracker has a big touchscreen and GPS like a smartwatch, but it still has a long-life battery and a sub-$200 price. The post Samsung Gear Fit2 Is Half Fitness Tracker, Half Smartwatch appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Samsung Gear Fit2 Is Half Fitness Tracker, Half Smartwatch
By Uzair AmirSamsung is working on a projector smartwatch that will useThis is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Samsung File Patent for Projector Smartwatch That Uses Skin as Display Screen Continue reading Samsung File Patent for Projector Smartwatch That Uses Skin as Display Screen
