U8 SmartHack

Did I just purposly missed the Kosagi forums or just didnt read the right google results yet?

So longer story short (I need to do it this way) I got my Linux back up and running and should be able to do some research in to getting an new OS on my watch.

Just before you end up reading and digging tons of Forum threads and get distracted (if you not already are ;)

fernvale = a hardware project, a board that has a MT6280 as SoC.
fernly = the temporarely made software for fernvale boards
kosagi.com = company making the said above stuff (Adrew Huang lives here)

Maybe there is MicroPython for it aswell.

anyway, this is what I look at now: https://github.com/xobs/fernly

For you windows fanbooys, probably not Fernly but another OS will be compiled and ready for your downloadeble pleasure. I have no idea whats next, but use this as a basis for my Watch, get to know it better and write some stuff. See you in the next blog.

Yesterday I finanly got some software to work with my watch... the watch dint got detected. Did they sell me a USB cable without datalines? after multiple times trying I tried another cable... and you see... it worked. Windows correctly saw some new devices.

And while I was trying and trying to make a backup of my watch by advice by the guys and girls over XDA forums, Someone made a teardown video and someone a blogpost. (actualy I saw more of those, but (lee ?) from sodnpoo.com made it to the hackaday page.

Well that triggered my writing and researching skills to lvl max. Because I found it quite hard to find everything. So in order to help anyone with a quickstart, I made a plan to "dump" everything I know in some places neat and tidy... well, sort off.

Your reading my Log here at Hackaday IO, ive posted my notes from earlier and yesterday already on my "blog", hope you enjoy. And by the way, please, please make a backup. and post any cool findings and hacks you did with you watch.

Or you could just buy one right now :D