Nav-Tech Showcases DIY E-Ink Watch With 20+ Faces and Pebble-Style Apps

1 articles · Updated · XDA Developers · Aug 8

Nav-Tech unveiled a homemade e-ink watch built on Waveshare’s ESP32-S3 ePaper 1.54 board, pairing more than 20 custom watch faces with apps tailored for low-power e-paper screens.
Current features include an alarm, Pomodoro timer, e-reader, dice roller, weather forecasts and voice memos, reflecting design cues borrowed from the Pebble smartwatch and adapted for e-ink.
Two additions are still in development: offline Wikipedia support and a vibration motor, which would expand the watch beyond its current app set.
Source code and STL files are not public yet, but Nav-Tech said a Ko-Fi page is being set up to eventually distribute the files needed for others to build the watch.