alright you got me. A RP2040 or RP2350 custom step counter and a companion app. Throw in mini games like it's a tamagotchi and can use steps as a currency in the games and writes to your repo

You have my axe

(if you want bluetooth, you probably want an nrf52 instead of an RP2xxx. If you want wifi instead, you probably want an nrf52 and/or an esp32c3)

for wireless wearables you probably always just want a damn Nordic chip, unless you need to drive a display or really want WiFi specifically

power usage is so night and day different ime

I need to order some of them. I haven’t used them but I know @jamesmunns.com had me sold when I saw he used one for in house monitoring and it had a coin cell battery

yeah they're super solid. embassy has decent support for them too, even the radio, iirc. they're not real fast chips for their price, but that's not why you use them, and they have a TON of features, esp on the full-fat versions in each generation.

i will say, if you aren't too price-sensitive and you're fine with a bigger board for fussing around with, i definitely recommend their developer kits, they have all sorts of good extras, better than a nucleo that way.

Welcome on board to the at proto step counting tamagotchi team 🥳

Feels like one step away from Strava on atproto

👀 bsky.app/profile/wilb...

Life got in the way a bit, but I will hopefully hack away at it more soon. Even bought a domain! @mapped.at

wait i was just gonna use the phone but doing a tamagotchi is cuter

Hilariously, I have some time that I can do this, IF: * My gig that is supposed to start out in Oct pans out (should know late this week/early next week * A gig that might start ASAP falls through (or doesn't start ASAP). Someone other than me is gunna have to do the apps or backend stuff tho :D

If you wanted to go bluetooth, I have a pair of these in a drawer, and they'd make a pretty good first/final dev kit: nrf52840, same screen as the og pebbles, lis3dh accelerometer (fine/overkill for a step counter), jog wheel, CR2032 battery holder: www.moddable.com/moddable-four

I think I've honestly overextended myself and overpromised on too much atm as is sadly. But I have wanted a little hackable Bluetooth durable device with a screen and something like an SM6DS3 in it that autocount steps for a long time, and would love something like that. It's very tempting

No worries, open offer :) Best of luck on making it down the yak shaving stack!

whole app should be easy tbh. just connect to the api that gives you steps data and post it after each day