Scottish maker and silversmith Math Campbell has built a smartwatch with a difference: this one goes in your pocket, not on your wrist.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve always wanted a sci-fi style pocketwatch (ever since I read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson),” Campbell explains of the project’s inspiration. “None exist aside from a few people cramming a smartwatch into an antique case. So I got a development board from Waveshare that has a screen and motherboard ([Espressif] ESP32-S3 with a 466\u00d7466 AMOLED screen), and programmed a UI [User Interface] that looks suitably sci-fi for my gaudy tastes.”<\/p>\n
This chunky pocketwatch is powered by an Espressif ESP32-S3 microcontroller and round display, and housed in 3D-printed stainless steel. (\ud83d\udcf7: Math Campbell)<\/p>\n
The watch is built around the dimensions of Waveshare’s ESP32-S3 1.75″ 466\u00d7466 AMOLED Round Touch Display Development Board, which in turn houses the dual-core Espressif ESP32-S3 microcontroller behind a circular AMOLED display connected via a quad-SPI interface. Being round, rather than square, makes it ideal for watch projects \u2014 but Campbell wasn’t happy with just cramming it into an old pocketwatch housing, so turned to 3D printing for something truly custom.<\/p>\n
“[I] added a battery and designed [the] case in [Autodesk] Fusion360,” Campbell explains, “and had it 3D-printed in stainless steel. Not perfect and I still need to do the buttons and a few other parts and then remake the case in sterling silver (I am a silversmith), but this is the first time seeing it assembled and working somewhat so I wanted to show it off.”<\/p>\n
More details are available in Campbell’s Reddit post<\/a>, while source code for the smartwatch is available on GitHub<\/a> under an unspecified license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottish maker and silversmith Math Campbell has built a smartwatch with a difference: this one goes in your…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49,48,195,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-481893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}