The last days for my Pebble Watch

After a long time my Pebble 'Kickstarter Edition' will retire early because of the new Pebble Time.

I think it's now over two years that I'm wearing my Pebble -> one word: AWESOME!

Battery still looks good -> Especially with my watchface 'FullProgress' (which updates only every 30 seconds) -> 6 days without charging and still at 10% :)
(checked with the App 'Battery Leak' by 'Ycleptic Studios')

Link to the watchface 'FullProgress'

AC Voltage Regulator for Motor

For my CNC mill I've bought an ash vacuum cleaner.

I've found a lot of people who made their own Dyson Cyclone vacuum cleaner.

When I finally have my CNC, I'll convert my ash vaccum to a cyclone vacuum. :)

But now to the ash vacuum cleaner...

Pebble SDK 2.0 / Appstore launch 2014

Pebble released SDK2.0 for developers. Many things have changed...
Migrating faces/apps is difficult (according to my opinion).

The new SDK brings not only the ability to read out the connection state and battery state and show them on your watchface/app.

Deactivate PayPass on my Card - RFID Zapper

I received a new bank card with the PayPass function (contactless payment over RFID).
I didn't ordered that feature but all the new cards have it and there's no way to deactivate it officially.

Because it's pretty easy to copy or steal your card information, I've searched for a method to deactivate it.

Macbook 2008 Pro Broken -> Again :(

Well about two months ago, the macbook again didn't showed up the booting screen (apple logo)...

Didn't had a lot of time to keep my blog up to date...

It was clear that the third time reflowing didn't repaired it forever...
I decided to buy some equipment to reball the GPU...

Pebble Watchface - Sonar

I wrote that I'll post my watchface here when it's finished...

So here it is (downloads below):

Outside is the second dot, the middle dot is the minute, and the inner is the hour.
Upper left is day of week, bottom left is day, bottom rigth is month and upper rigth is calender week.
There's an animation which looks like a sonar...

 

I call it the Radar Sonar Clock :) 

Pebble Watch

The past days I bought a Pebble Watch... A friend bakered some goods to the kickstarter project a year ago and now he received some watches... He asked me if I want to have one (thx to flaex)...
First I was a bit skeptic because I was really happy with my old watch (analog, no numbers, no stopwatch,...).

But I was really curious about the capabilities. Also a new challenge in programing it. Finally I took it and it's really awesome...
I only received Phone Call Notifications with iOS5 first, so I updatet on iOS6...
Then I received only Phone Calls, SMS and mail Notifications.

If you have a Jailbreak you can download BTNotificationEnabler (by Konrad Kramer) then you'll get all notifications on your pebble... Really nice ;)
(You'll find it in the BigBoss Repo)

Watchfaces (and Apps) can be found here.

I already downloaded/installed the SDK... There are a lot of steps to install but it's explained very good on the dev site of pebble.
Attention: Only MacOS & Ubuntu Supported... (VirtualMachine could be an alternative for Windows users).

I'm going to develop my own Watchface... Post it here when it's finished...

What I'm missing at my new Pebble Watch:

• Saphireglas
• Ceramic Band
• The function to control the phone (you can answer/cancel calls)
• Microphone and Speaker
• More Functions in the SDK 
• Could be a bit thinner (but it's really thin when you keep in mind what's inside...)

Actually I'm a bit tired, so if you find some error in this article... See it as a gift and keep it or write a comment ;p