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It's great to see them coming back! I adored my Pebble(s). 2 fun stories: 1. Pebble supported 3rd party watch faces based on a file. There was a great little s

by xavdid 2y ago

It's great to see them coming back! I adored my Pebble(s). 2 fun stories: 1. Pebble supported 3rd party watch faces based on a file. There was a great little site that let you use a visual UI to build the file and, if done from your phone, upload it right to the watch. Once, when out at midnight beer launch, I made a custom face for the beer and won a little keychain from the brewery. My Apple watch could never. 2. Once time in 2014, I ran into some Pebble engineers at an ice cream shop in Palo Alto, they spotted my watch, they bought my scoop! Fun, weird little Silicon Valley moment.

erohead 2y ago
We actually had a company tab at that ice cream shop - anyone who had a Pebble on ate for free :)
- eythian 2y ago
  It's a pity that you didn't have a tab at the bar I bumped into you in in Amsterdam last year, while wearing my PTS, then ;) I remember you mentioning that there was hope of the firmware being open sourced. Very glad to see that it's happened, and that I might well have a chance to upgrade this 10-year-old but still going strong watch.
follower 2y ago
> There was a great little site that let you use a visual UI to build the file Was the site you used "Watchface Generator" (.de -- domain was poached at some point) : https://developer.rebble.io/developer.pebble.com/community/tools/watchface-generator/index.html https://developer.rebble.io/developer.pebble.com/community/t... I seem to recall there were a couple of graphic + watch-face only generator sites but think the .de hosted one was most common? Of particular note in the current context: There was also the ground-breaking "CloudPebble IDE" by Katharine Berry (subsequently employed by Pebble), who "coincidentally" :) happens to be one of the three authors of the Google blog post about the Pebble OS release: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/01/see-code-that-powered-pebble-smartwatches.html https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/01/see-code-that-powe... (And who is apparently also part of the Rebble team.) For anyone interested here's a couple of related links I encountered while trying to recall what CloudPebble was called :) : * Write-up of a person's experience of using CloudPebble to write their first Pebble watch face (with no previous C or Linux experience): https://thomasstoeckert.us/project/pebble-sse-classic https://thomasstoeckert.us/project/pebble-sse-classic * Write-up about Rebble project by iFixIt in 2019: https://www.ifixit.com/News/33398/rebble-with-a-cause-how-pebble-watches-got-their-amazing-afterlife https://www.ifixit.com/News/33398/rebble-with-a-cause-how-pe... * Source code for CloudPebble: https://github.com/pebble/cloudpebble https://github.com/pebble/cloudpebble

by xavdid 2y ago

erohead 2y ago

We actually had a company tab at that ice cream shop - anyone who had a Pebble on ate for free :)

eythian 2y ago
It's a pity that you didn't have a tab at the bar I bumped into you in in Amsterdam last year, while wearing my PTS, then ;) I remember you mentioning that there was hope of the firmware being open sourced. Very glad to see that it's happened, and that I might well have a chance to upgrade this 10-year-old but still going strong watch.

follower 2y ago

> There was a great little site that let you use a visual UI to build the file Was the site you used "Watchface Generator" (.de -- domain was poached at some point) : https://developer.rebble.io/developer.pebble.com/community/tools/watchface-generator/index.html https://developer.rebble.io/developer.pebble.com/community/t... I seem to recall there were a couple of graphic + watch-face only generator sites but think the .de hosted one was most common? Of particular note in the current context: There was also the ground-breaking "CloudPebble IDE" by Katharine Berry (subsequently employed by Pebble), who "coincidentally" :) happens to be one of the three authors of the Google blog post about the Pebble OS release: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/01/see-code-that-powered-pebble-smartwatches.html https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/01/see-code-that-powe... (And who is apparently also part of the Rebble team.) For anyone interested here's a couple of related links I encountered while trying to recall what CloudPebble was called :) : * Write-up of a person's experience of using CloudPebble to write their first Pebble watch face (with no previous C or Linux experience): https://thomasstoeckert.us/project/pebble-sse-classic https://thomasstoeckert.us/project/pebble-sse-classic * Write-up about Rebble project by iFixIt in 2019: https://www.ifixit.com/News/33398/rebble-with-a-cause-how-pebble-watches-got-their-amazing-afterlife https://www.ifixit.com/News/33398/rebble-with-a-cause-how-pe... * Source code for CloudPebble: https://github.com/pebble/cloudpebble https://github.com/pebble/cloudpebble