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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Nicely done! I do something like this on my bike too, except it’s just strips of neopixel RGB LEDs on the frame held in place with zip ties driven by a pi pico. As a result I can program different light modes (flash, solid, fade, rainbow party mode, fake police lights etc etc etc) and even turn signals.

    Having a single battery means less to charge/replace. It all runs off a USB battery bank and lasts days. My lights also cannot be removed or stolen easily and even if you do what’s the point it’s just a strip of LEDs, it’s all easily replaced even if they do. Having integrated bike lights seems more convenient for me and I don’t have to worry about forgetting my lights when I go out after dark.







  • The Wii.

    It is such an underpowered console, with only a handful of must have titles if that.

    But man those titles hold up. Even my little gen alphers love it and get into it. Its mostly just a wii sports machine but its still going strong even in this era of mobile and AAA gaming.

    I have a bunch of old consoles but the Wii is the only one that gets regular play without needing convincing.




  • Action Star Trek games are fun, let’s be honest. Most of us enjoyed Elite Force and that certainly had some scifi horror elements, maybe without going too hard. I hope this game is good and wish them well.

    But personally I keep telling myself the perfect Star Trek game is an away mission based walking/tricorder simulator with LA Noire style interactions with characters and Myst-ish styled puzzles. Maybe something closer to the new Indiana Jones game but in spaaaace.

    I keep waiting to see that game. I have no idea if it would work though. I thought Resurgence came close, but it definitely wasn’t perfect.





  • I feel you on the smart gadgets thing. After the fall of pebble I swore off smart stuff and was into Casio and simpler amazefit neo type stuff for a while. Then I fell into casio PCB conversions and before I knew it I was back at basically smart watches again like the pinetime.

    When I saw pebble was back I had to get it. I pulled my old pebble time out and started daily driving it.

    The time 2 builds on the existing pebble vibe but just sort of smoothes a lot of edges, improves quality of life and feels like a solid upgrade. It’s early days but I kind of love it.

    Pros

    • The screen is great. Maaaaybe a tiny bit less legible than the time screen, but easy to read in most light and in sunlight it’s stunningly crisp. Not amazing color reproduction but eh, it’s epaper.
    • the buttons are this nice knurled metal and they click satisfyingly. An improvement over my old time’s mushy buttons.
    • It looks pretty slick imo I love how it looks on the wrist.
    • should you want them there is a decent hobbyist level of apps and watchfaces available for all sorts of things. You could also easily make your own if so I inclined.
    • there’s lots of simple customizations that feel very neighborly for example letting you flip the screen if you like the buttons on the other side for wearing on your right wrist.
    • it just has that fun lo-fi feel that is kind of missing these days.

    Cons

    • I haven’t completely discharged the battery yet, but at current rate I don’t see the endurance target being realistic. I think theres optimizations like turning off heartrate monitor etc. Maybe we’ll get there with updates.
    • while cool the backlight is not exceptionally bright. It’s not dim, but I could have used a bit more juice personally.
    • there are some minor bugs. Backlight will stop sometimes while navigating the menu. Not ideal in the dark. Again maybe this will be fixed.

    Tl;Dr

    Yeah I recommend it if you’re like me and like the pebble philosophy and are willing to accept some deficiencies. If you want a polished finished product I’m not sure it’s there yet. It’s a nice watch in general though. Even without notifications it offers a lot of unique timekeeping functions.