https://jorisbukala.com/tags/watch/ Recent content in Watch on Joris Bukala | Math & ML Hugo -- 0.153.4 en-us Thu, 14 Dec 2023 09:00:00 +0100 https://jorisbukala.com/posts/impractical-time-telling-ii/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 09:00:00 +0100 https://jorisbukala.com/posts/impractical-time-telling-ii/ <p>This is a follow-up to the <a href="https://jorisbukala.com/posts/impractical-time-telling/" title="Impractical Time Telling">Impractical Time Telling</a> post.</p> <h2 id="impractical-time-telling-ii-the-practicalities">Impractical Time Telling II: The Practicalities</h2> <p>The plan was to do this in some downtime over the Christmas holidays, but the stars already aligned a few weeks ago. I found a Garmin Instinct 2S smartwatch in the house, and Garmin actually has a good setup (<a href="https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/overview/">called Connect IQ</a>) for developers to create their own apps, watchfaces, et cetera.</p> <h2 id="garmin-development">Garmin development</h2> <p>To develop a watchface, you should install the SDK on your machine, and install packages for the specific devices that you want to emulate. It&rsquo;s highly recommended to then also install a PyCharm or VSCode extension for &lsquo;Monkey C&rsquo;. From your IDE you can then easily start an emulator for a device to test your software during development. <a href="https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/monkey-c/">Monkey C</a> is Garmin&rsquo;s own object-oriented language that should make it easy to use for app development.</p> https://jorisbukala.com/posts/impractical-time-telling/ Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:51:01 +0100 https://jorisbukala.com/posts/impractical-time-telling/ <h2 id="impractical-time-telling">Impractical Time Telling</h2> <p>You know how sometimes problems are just completely <em>solved</em> and thus boring? Like telling the time: We used to have sundials, now we have quartz watches, digital clocks&hellip; <em>Yawn</em>. A while ago I got a <a href="https://projectswatches.com/cdn/shop/files/bauhausblackhero.jpg?v=1688088927&amp;width=800">watch that was quite funky</a>, although a bit of a challenge to read.</p> <p>It got me thinking, why not <em>create</em> a nice problem to solve by creating an impractical representation of the current time and make a watch face that can display it as reasonably as possible?</p>