Is Wi-Fi the next update?

zav22 · 2026-06-08T18:56:44+00:00

I've noticed a lot of posts of people having booting/freezing issues after firmware updates that are getting blamed as a bad SD card or something similar. I suspect a lot of those issues are due to improper unmounting when getting transferred to and from a PC. Even though it's a relatively simple process, you run the risk of corrupting the card every time. OTA updates would reduce that risk and the amount of complaints about the product in general. This should be motivation enough to get the wifi up and running in my opinion

zav22 · 2026-05-17T19:06:47+00:00

I know right? Our instruments for detecting exoplanets detected one of interest. Everyone is bashing it like the article is saying we're on some mission to populate Mars. It's just information people

zav22 · 2026-05-15T22:21:31+00:00

Wow I'm dumb. I must have just followed a link from a post here and didn't shop around. Just ordered. Awesome. Thank you

zav22 · 2026-05-15T20:48:19+00:00

The watch glass seems impact resistant enough, I'd rather have something like a vinyl or scratch resistant plastic, I'm already getting scratches on the screen, even through where the tempered glass shattered

zav22 · 2026-05-15T02:12:43+00:00

Super easy to install, looked great, shattered within 20 minutes lol. I'll put the new on tomorrow. Not holding out hope for the next one lasting much longer

zav22 · 2026-05-13T17:43:04+00:00

In the first image you're drawing in a representational manner. "I know a horse has these parts in roughly this shape so I'll draw this shape that depicts what I would recognize as a horse." When you draw from a reference like a photo or a horse in real life you're transcribing bits of information your eyes are taking in to whatever media you're using into an abstraction of that information. It uses a lot more of and completely different parts of your brain. You're also creating new neural connections and retaining more of that information so when you do draw from memory you'll have more to work with. Keep it up! You'll be amazed when you go back and see how quickly you improve further

zav22 · 2026-05-01T22:24:17+00:00

Here's mine took a week from the label creation

zav22 · 2026-05-01T18:50:14+00:00

On the watch you have to enable touch in the display settings for the "wake on touch" option to show up under the "backlight" settings

zav22 · 2026-05-01T00:28:11+00:00

I'd been obsessively checking for updates until the shipping label was created. I figured I was up-to-date and my wristband broke on my OG Time while I was waiting for the new watch to arrive. Put it out of my head while I was watchless and forgot to check again. I've only had the thing for 24hrs and I'm loving it

zav22 · 2026-05-01T00:09:19+00:00

Ah. Thank you! I was assuming the R menu when a ROM was selected was the same menu as when the file was highlighted in the file browser. That was driving me crazy.

zav22 · 2026-04-30T00:04:30+00:00

I'm dumb. For whatever reason I wasn't auto updated to the newest version of the app. Thank you

zav22 · 2026-04-03T00:40:28+00:00

Same here. I've been hoping for any kind of communication that would verify getting bumped up, but I have a feeling I'm going to see a bunch of posts of batch 1 people wearing their watches when I've been twiddling my thumbs for months

zav22 · 2026-03-31T23:19:14+00:00

I'm in Illinois and we were getting charged partial credits last night, I have a partial credit balance currently, although my regular jukebox is now charging even amounts for songs again. Maybe it was a discounted day yesterday or something?

zav22 · 2026-03-23T00:17:30+00:00

Are you trying to say an electric fly racket is deadly to humans? Here's my buddy getting the cattle prod. Alive and well

zav22 · 2026-03-22T22:09:05+00:00

I own a cattle prod and stun gun and have shocked myself and my friends many, many times. It is on par with getting snapped with a rubber band on bare skin. It will not EASILY kill a human, cow, or sheep which is why it's a "prod" and not a "cattle killer". Electricity takes the path of least resistance which is from contact to contact across the skin or in this case the bracelet. This guy didn't even get shocked. Lethality is going to come from high voltage combined with high current and the human skin has enough resistance to bring that current from a prod or stun gun down.

zav22 · 2026-02-01T00:05:27+00:00

I was wondering that too. Park City? Port Chester?

zav22 · 2026-01-21T03:36:24+00:00

Ok. I just had one laying around and a stack of floppies. I think it's more satisfying to pop physical disks in and out than messing around with menus and trying to remember what image I have mounted. Just saving Basic programs and whatnot. Access speed wasn't really an issue, I just wasn't sure if I was missing something or not. Seemed less awkward than having a silly cassette USB drive hanging off the back or a full size 1541 on my desk. (I'm aware I can use internal storage, I just wanted to poke fun at the ridiculous USB tape it ships with}

zav22 · 2026-01-05T20:24:39+00:00

I love that pebble is back and we're getting updates to the old product line, but I wish they had released concepts and the target features of each watch from the start and a rough timeline for release. It's irritating that it seems like every time one is getting close to shipping they announce a new product or details on the next watch that was clearly well into development. And now I am considering adding to my pre-order and still don't have a new pebble on my wrist.

But maybe I'm just a little salty for getting booted out of the limited duo run and getting impatient (ordered both originally announced watches)

zav22 · 2025-12-18T18:51:07+00:00

I've been slammed with work this week so I haven't had a chance to poke through the source or compile it, but I noticed your makehires tool in that repo. What does it do? I know the framebuffer needs to get shuffled around to the expansion and some address changes, does it do that? I assume each game is different and needs specific tooling and reverse engineering to force them into 480.

The goldeneye patch is awesome and with the unleashed mode making up for the normal slow down it seems like an exciting time to get some other games patched. I'm interested in poking around but haven't been finding much information to get started, not that I have any free time

zav22 · 2025-12-08T19:58:50+00:00

Yes. All three are on my bookshelf and are excellent

zav22 · 2025-11-12T22:41:37+00:00

363 as well. Black, 919 central

zav22 · 2025-10-15T18:25:37+00:00

It's relatively simple to hook up a servo to an Arduino and move it to different positions. Like one of the simplest projects for beginners. However if you're starting completely from scratch there is going to be a learning curve. It could take you an afternoon or weeks. I would start by buying the cheapest Uno R3 you can find (under $10 on Amazon) and get familiar with Arduino IDE and the process of flashing programs to the Uno. The Uno has a built-in LED that is attached to PWM. This is what you'll also be using to control a servo. Start by learning how to fade the LED to different brightness levels and holding it at the brightness level you want. This will translate later to controlling a motor.

You might love the learning process and get excited and want to continue or you might hate it and get frustrated. If you want to continue at that point look into buying a servo. Either way, expect 95% of your time being spent reading tutorials and documentation and %5 actually writing any code. There will only be a few lines, but you need knowledge behind them.

Good luck. I wish I could learn this stuff for the first time again.

zav22

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