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MicroPython Smartwatch


Inspiration While browsing Hacker News one day, I came across this post. It shows an intense segment of getting MicroPython running on a $3 smartwatch.

Lucky for them, in 2013, Damien George had a successful Kickstarter campaign where he developed a language called MicroPython that would run on a wide array of microcontrollers. Turns out that a company called Pine64 created a full array of products from microcontroller boards to phones to tablets to - you guessed it - a watch. Then find a nice performant distro to install, like Xubuntu (or Lubuntu) and run it alongside what is almost certainly going to be Windows (GRUB will let you pick on boot).

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