After The Dust Settles: Building Pebble Apps
The Pebble smartwatch platform has been revived as an open-source project, allowing developers to create new apps for the legacy hardware. A guide has been released to help users navigate the C-based development environment for these devices.
Why it matters
This highlights the growing trend of community-led software maintenance for discontinued hardware, extending the lifecycle of consumer electronics.
For a piece of wearable technology, Pebble has had a fairly rocky history. One of the most successful Kickstarters of its era, it went on to get acquired by FitBit, quietly shelved by them, then acquired by Google and open-sourced, where it s now somewhat back in the hands of its original creator. Its new open source nature means that regular people can develop for these popular watches again, and [Coconauts] have developed a guide for these watches, new and old .
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