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Anyone thinking about putting a RISC-V CPU in a watch? - Darin755 - 03-18-2025
I was looking at the chip in the Ox64 and I think it is kind of interesting that it can do video output. Anyone tried building a watch around it? I like the idea of having a little more hardware capabilities in a watch but I don't care for the "modern" watches. Right now I have a BangleJS 2 and it works ok but the software is unpolished and buggy. Also the battery life isn't great since Javascript adds a lot of overhead. I think it would be cool if there was a watch that could utilize something a little more mainstream like Linux to speed up development. Since the chip has Wifi you could control it via a web server and it could pull down apps and install updates.
This is really just a random thought I had the other day so it is probably flawed. However, I wish we had a watch with a open ecosystem.
RE: Anyone thinking about putting a RISC-V CPU in a watch? - KC9UDX - 03-18-2025
To me, it strikes me as unfathomable that there isn't a 65c02 small enough to do the job. It would be better suited than anything modern if it could be pulled off with a small enough RTC. Then we could avoid bloat altogether. Systemd? No thanks. We could have battery life better than we did when TI made the best watches.