This Abandoned Project Haunted Me for Years…
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
- Special thanks to www.PCBWay.com for sponsoring this video. PCBWay provides fast and easy PCB prototyping, 3D printing, and CNC services. I made my own smartwatch from basic components, and created everything except the board and screen, including the case, additional hardware, and the operating system.
The main board used was the Lilygo T-Display S3 AMOLED (www.lilygo.cc/products/t-disp..., and features an ESP32-S3 SoC that provides built in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, I2C, and USB-C interface.
The case was designed in Google Sketchup, and the operating system (mPOS) and applications were written in Python using the Micropython firmware, and the main AMOLED board driver was provided by nspsck on GitHub.
Driver link: github.com/nspsck/RM67162_Mic...
3D model of case, but you'll never use it since it's for this specific board: drive.google.com/file/d/1o5Bm...
Previous title: I Made a Smartwatch In A Cave With A Box Of Scraps
This video was sponsored by PCBWay - Наука та технологія
Correction: The ESP32-S3 contains a dual-core Xtensa LX7 CPU (built on the Xtensa ISA), not a RISCV CPU. Other ESP32 models such as the ESP32-C and ESP32-H series do use RISCV CPUs.
Does it run Quake?
@@ktaylor9095 It can run linux so, probably.
can it run doom?
You got me at "It's much less painless than the Arduino IDE".
Yup a ide is ... Clunky
same lmao
So.. correct me if I’m wrong.. but shouldn’t it be “much less painful”? Since it is less painful that the Arduino IDE?
@@sepvrij5642 yes
Yes, there's nothing more painful than python.
that empty space could be reserved for a virtual pet
You're so right
Exactly!! That is what I miss in every smartwatch. If apple made a colaboration with Bandai to include a tamagotchi inside a iwatch I would buy it inmediatly!
More V pets everywhere
*Can it run Do-* Oh...
Can it play _Bad Apple?_
Can it watch H1T1?
@@poka26ev2 absolutely.. just find a way to transfer frames to the board onto the screen and boom you're watching his video on one more rare device
People have gotten esp32s to run doom yeah.
Super cool project. I really miss the times when different devices looked more unique. With every phone, every smartwatch, every laptop looking pretty much the same these days, little devices like this are such a breath of fresh air!
Fantastic build and video! great job!
Abe!
@thisdudeisbig5546 Not a monkey
@@2peoples785 okay?
It's my other favourite hobby project youtuber!
Panning out to the rat theatre was a stroke of genius. Absolutely in love with the tiny backed chairs for rats
Yes, his cave is so much more advanced than my home lab.
Wait wait wait the technology? Inkbox built this in a cave with a box of scraps!
Who do they think they are? Tony Stark?!
"Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave!! with a box of scraps"
The upper and lower bounds for your battery voltage should be available on the datasheet. You could just assume the discharge curve is linear, and show the percentage between these bounds in your indicator. A next level take would be to characterize your battery by monitoring the voltage while it discharges. This way you could use the min / max battery voltages as your endpoints, and map the battery voltage to a set of percentages in respect to the total battery life. You could probably do this entirely in the software you already have, or take the battery out and simulate the typical current draw of your device using a resistor (just series/parallell them to get enough wattage capacity).
Actually for 1s lipos (or liions) the voltage curve compared to % is already known and the difference between different batteries (of the same type) is so low, that you can ignore it. You can look it up on google quite easily and it worked for me just fine. I've also seen some people trying to simplify it into an equation. I tried that, and the results were close enough to be usable. So maybe a software update ? :)
I can't get past the fact you say A M O L E D rather than pronouncing it as a word like the majority of people. It's such a mouthful. Even when just saying "screen" would have sufficed.
I was just about to say that.
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's amoled
How do other people say it?
@@Alkatross Phonetically like ahm-oh-lead
But then he wouldn't have been able to set up that joke at the start!
was 8-bit Minecraft just a dream i had once??
well there is this game that notch made called "minicraft" in 2011 i am unsure of whether it is 8-bit or not so that might be what you are thinking of
@@monkeeboy830 Inkbox has a video on a project where they’re recreating Minecraft but 8-bit
Just to let you know, that problem you had with the rotary encoder is called 'debounce' and you can solve it is software.
You basically just need to give the pin some time to settle on a value before registering it as a button press/rotate.
What I like most about your vids is how much you clearly care. Thanks for sharing your projects!
Mapping 2.5V-4.2V to 0-100% shouldn't be too difficult for the battery indicator
2:07 i can't just strap the wrist to my board
I can't just strap the board to my wrist
I heard read that title in Obadiah's voice lol
Does it run Quake?
*doom/j
@@chasewtir (the last line of the video is “nobody ask if it runs doom!”)
Do you know what /j means?
@@chasewtir do you know what a joke is?
because that was a pretty terrible one.
@@lexibigcheese I don’t know how to repond
Awesome video! :D
Awesome project. Thanks for the video.
Look at that nice top bar and its font! Well done! :)
This dedication is just awesome!
I absolutely love the title you picked for this
Me acting like I understand whatever you're talking about...
I though i was alone…
Your video felt “Fresh”. Loved it
Alright this is pretty sweet great job man!
This is really impressive
Really cool video
Love the humor
Great job!
pretty impressive!
ive been wating for a video from you for ages
got a new subscriber. great work.
New video so excited!
Id love to see another version of this, with some of the changes mentioned
I don't appreciate you reminding me of my untouched wearable design collecting dust on my desk.
Also, good job making it. that's pretty awesome.
16:32 Some mobiles use a "squircle" not a rounded square. A squircle is also rounded on the sides (not just the corners). Your icons are fine but it is good to be able to recognize and recreate the different shapes.
please make more of this
"And after 3 years of wasting away in my desk
I came across this updated version"
Wait you didn't even use the original board? XD
I love this, I want one
This is amazing
3:39
Finally, a fellow sane man who understands that taps are the way.
It's almost like they were literally created for this purpose and have various benefits from greater accessibility for people with conditions like dyslexia, to smaller file size, to greater consistency by reducing accidental "just slightly off the right number" indentation situations.
i've dreamt of making something like this, I might in the future, your video brought the hopes back up
Honestly I think the best way you could iterate on this design would be to add a Blackberry Keyboard along with the addition of touch that you mentioned to make this into a mini wrist-mounted Cyberdeck.
i really love the world clock, if there was a download link to that, i'd get it, its straight up beautiful man
Me too. If that clock was an android app widget clock, I would buy that.
i would love to see a touchscreen version!!!!
Your custom OS is really nice. Will you make it public? I have seen that you loaded a lot of your project on github, do you think to do the same whit that?
You should see if it can play pip boy holotapes!
really cool
Yesss we need more gauntlet style wearables
Neat. Maybe for version 2.0 you can add a full D-Pad and some joysticks. Maybe have the portion that straps to your arm be just a cradle and the main device could pop off for play.
I’ve been recycling rechargeable vapes with little screens trying to do something useful with them.
That haunts me too, knowing i feel limited but I’m truly not.
Next version needs a sound (emitor/receptor) a radio scanner (multi rf Rx+Tx) , also a battery that is exchangeable for better use and external charging.
Can’t wait for the mark 2 iron man.
this looks goddamn awesome
We need that updated version. Maybe with extra memory to store and run all your 8-bit games (temple run and Minecraft?) :)
A touch screen version would be amazing
Also you should run doom on it
Super dope
Make the rotary encoder switch app pages, and maybe make an app store for community apps.
if the screen is little bit bigger and can modularize like zack freedman, that would be perfect. Tho this is already a cool gedget!
Awesome vid thank you! One correction: The ESP32-S3 is not RISCV. It’s got 2 Xtensa LX7 cores (the latest iteration of the cores used in the original ESP32). RISCV cores are used on pretty much every Espressif board other than the S series. Just FYI.
Makes me want to start working on my abandoned Raspberry PiPad that I gave up on (mainly due to the lack of Performance that Pi2 had , Pi4 would definitely work.)
You might overcome the constraints of the fonts by creating a script that maps/synch-links the default small characters to certain code that would display a corresponding (custom?) character map.
(well someone already wrote a better comment talking about this before)
Well if you know there voltage when it is connected to a external powersource, run with full battery and when the required voltage is not enough to run the device.
You can display an icon for charging, fully charged and nearly empty. Even percentages if you take the delta form those.
It could be inaccurate but easier to read
But great vid, love it
This is a reasonable solution, but is exactly why cheap Chinese tech has battery status from hell.
i use rust for embedded projects now, it is fast at compiling and not hard to setup
I've wanted to learn rust for a while, I think might try that soon
@@InkboxSoftware its definitly different but i personally prefer it
I love the device like a Pip-Boy Very very good work, I tinker but you really deliver an end product, try something with e-ink hardware
Bro is cooking Wrist LoJack-a-mater that Leela from Futurama has.
awesome, can you use the voltage as a scale to calculate percentage of battery? say 3.46v being 0% and 4v being 100%?
Cool 😮
Reminds me of those glitch tech bracelets but small.
Have you considered using using some ESP32 Forth implementation?
Having an interactive, realtime development experience is much more satisfying, than the edit/compile/download/run cycle, even if language is a bit quirky.
You might not have display drivers in Forth of the shelf, but you can port existing ones with less effort than you might think, because of the REPL-style development workflow.
You can build up convenience words in no time, which makes you application code read really pleasant.
I've really enjoyed all the explanation, including the missteps! You are right; those are just as useful to share as the successful steps.
Oh my God I laughed so hard when you mentioned that :"don't ask me if this runs doom" LMFAOL!
For the most part billiards and pool games don't have a set number of pockets or locations set. There are a few games that do but most don't so mini billiards is still legal billiards.
you can calculate the rough battery percentage from the maximum battery voltage and minimum battery voltage it runs at
my man is out here making a pipboy for the coming apocalypse.
okay iron man
Yooo that's so epic, you should get that 8bit Minecraft running on there, that would make good clickbait.
Been thinking of doing something similar, are you going to open source that OS?
Do you consider to opensource it?
Your Project sounds really cool
19:55 hey wait, this is what I came her for! lol This looks like a really awesome project! Even though you don't have the rotary encoder doing much right now, it gives you plenty of wiggle room for OS updates down the road.
It could be useful for your screen brightness and controlling the direction of the ball in your pool game. Should you be crazy enough to find a place for a small speaker, it could be good for controlling volume, too.
If you wanted to get really crafty, you could even override the app behavior for it and use a press+rotate to always control something regardless of what app you're in.
wicked
great video, entertaining, funny, and incredibly informative. invest in a better mic asap though brother.
About the earth rotation of your clock:
Did you considered save 360 Images of the earth pre-rendered, so instead the uC processing the rotation you just use the corresponding image. I know it would take some storage space, but since you use an SD card it might not be a problem.
sponsor aside, in the future look into your local library if you need a laser engraver or 3d printer, a lot of them have em available for public use now a days
"INKBOX WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!"
if you know how much the voltage is when the Batterie is full for lithium its between 4.2V and 4.35V then
you could divide it with the voltage the chip is measurement like 3,5 V / 4,2 V = 0,84 means the Batterie has 84 %
The correct way to debounce a switch (the encoder) is in software. Not hardware. The capacitors are not needed, and is a sign that the person doing the software didn't do a good job. You can make that encoder work wonderfully just by debouncing it in software!
I LOVE IT!
What about next time you develop a round one from those led screens found in AliExpress? :P Maybe evenw with GPS functionality like the Beeline models?
I've never been a fan of the round screen look, it makes me feel like my pixels were stolen
@@InkboxSoftware pleas we want discord server
@@InkboxSoftware lol fair enough!!! I just thought about the round one as a gps for motorcycles, since most motorcycles use round stuff on their dashes.
That's pretty damn cool, I'm kind of the opposite to you, more of a hardware guy learning software, and for some reason menu's and rendering to screens confuses the heck out of me, so I opt for BCD 7 segment displays to tell me what I need to know.
Inkbox: this board is backed by prefabulated amulite and can run 63 icrohedron simulations at a time.
Me: Hmm, yes. I definitely understand you perfectly.
we need the touchscreen version
But can it run Battletoads?
Please, teach us how you could use a c library in micropython,
Fun!
this really summarizes how it feels to try to compile someone else's godforsaken project.
I saw the words “spaces not tabs” and got scared for a second, had to rewind lol
13:00 I wonder if it can cleanly integrate any sort of public transit api...
Great
We need an 8-bit blocks pt:3 please 🙏
Apple and Samsung: Inkbox was able to make this in a CAVE!!! With a box of SCRAPS!