GoKawiil19 Aug 2026
The Pine Time is a $27 smart watch that runs open source firmware. I’ve had one sitting in the back of a drawer for a year or two. When I saw @steveruizok’s Tweet about hacking on ESP32 devices with Claude, I found some inspiration to pull my PineTime out of the drawer and see what Claude might be capable of!
if you know what a "coding agent" is then go buy this or something very similar (not sponsored but they're on amazon, pi hut, ali, all over) pic.twitter.com/iPvHxBiltf — Steve Ruiz (@steveruizok) July 25, 2026
I knew I wanted to start by building a watch face because the default watch faces that come with the watch are pretty plain and boring. I’d also recently seen @levelsio’s Tweet about building a custom Casio watch face for is Apple Watch.
⌚ Made a CASIO watch face for my Apple Watch
You can import the 2nd pic into Widgy to install it to your Apple Watchhttps://t.co/KGWBTBBzRB pic.twitter.com/BBf1iZo9kV — @levelsio (@levelsio) April 15, 2023
I wondered if I could build something similar for the PineTime (with a little help from Claude). As it turns out, the PineTime is a great watch for hacking with Claude!
It’s cheap ($27).
It runs open source firmware (InfiniTime, or any other RTOS you want).
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