Watchy by SQFMI Gets Unofficial Tamagotchi P1 Programing
Ever want a Tamagotchi Original P1 on your wrist? Well Watchy, an open-source e-paper smartwatch features just the platform to accomplish this. SQFMI just recently posted a video on their official Twitter account showing a P1 egg being hatched!
It seems that the P1 ROM was dumped on the Watchy, and they've even shared out the code.
For those that don't know the Pebble, it was one of the first smartwatches.
Some things about it where there has been NO SUITABLE REPLACEMENT FOR IN ALMOST 10 YEARS (that have more than 3 of these):
- an e-paper display
- a Battery that lasts more than 3 days.
- simple (I don't need 1000 features I don't use but make the watch expensive and cost battery life. I only need telling time, notifications, music control, alarms, weather, calendar, sleep/step tracking. Thats it)
- hackable (you can't even create watchfaces on the apple watch, and for the google pixel watch you need the whole Android SDK and basically have to make an android app) the pebble had thousends of user created watchfaces on its store.
- freaking physical buttons. I loved to control my music from my wrist without having to look.
I've got myself a google pixel watch a few months ago and I hate not beeing able to control music blindly and having to charge it every 1-3 days. The only good thing is, that I can use Google Pay from it and control some HomeAssistant stuff.
The tragedy is that I, as a disabled and sick person, would really benefit from using a fitness tracking watch to monitor my heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen, and what have you; but I, as a disabled and sick person, have a lot to lose by putting all that data on some random app with no oversight as to how that information will be used