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Toward a DIY smartwatch

The original inspiration for this is Tinkernut's project. (Gerd Lobmeyer, Open Green Energy and others have done similar projects.)

Considerations

Components

Display

Old school LCD

I'm thinking of pulls from old mobile phones, esp. Nokia. Power use should be minimal. Availability (used) should be good.

New school LCD

What's available? Again power consumption should be small when backlight isn't used. Looks like finding something suitably sized with workable I/O connections is going to be difficult.

OLED

What's the power consumption?

Controller

w/ integrated BLE

w/o BLE

Other

Bluetooth

Classic

BLE

Battery