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Many of the Cortex M0s are very good at conserving power, and have a number of low-power and sleep modes, which make running at these levels quite easy. On the
by nickff 10y ago
Many of the Cortex M0s are very good at conserving power, and have a number of low-power and sleep modes, which make running at these levels quite easy. On the other hand, while Bluetooth 4.0 is low-power friendly, cost and size limits inherent to the watch will probably force the team to do a custom antenna and FCC certification, which is expensive, slow, and painful.
I would say the electronics are not too complicated or difficult, but the energy harvesting and design will be tough, and the whole project will be quite arduous.
It would be very interesting to see their development plan, and whether they are going for an iterative/modular design, or all-in.
- nom 10y agoI agree, the CPU is probably the smallest problem. I'm curious with how little power you can get away with using a BLE radio. Especially if you constrain yourself to some kind of polling mode where the watch reaches out to the smartphone every minute or 5 minuetes or so.