#SMART POCKET WATCH ANDROID#

For some strange reason, you can only get to the 'tilt' setting from inside the Wear phone app settings. Turning off tilt to wake will completely disable motion waking and require pressing the crown button or touching the display to wake the watch. Ambient screen is simply a setting that means 'be more sensitive to movement.' With it off, it takes a more deliberate tilt motion to turn on, but it still will. What you need to turn off is 'tilt to wake'. >'Ambient display was disabled since I glancing down at the watch wasn't going to happen when the device was in your pocket, but not much else needed to be changed.'Īctually, that is not what 'ambient screen' mode is. Tiny errors can completely ruin prints, and if there are any imperfections on the outer edges of the print you run the risk of stress fractures on the bottom of your Moto 360 if you just carelessly jam the cartridge in.

The Moto 360 pocket watch design has been published as a remix on Thingiverse for anyone to try out for themselves, but it is important to remember that 3D Printers aren't always the most precise things on the planet when printing things this small.

#SMART POCKET WATCH ANDROID#

That this design is only marginally less practical than wearing the watch on your wrist either speaks volumes to the current limitations of Android Wear, or indicates this wasn't such a crazy idea to begin with. Holding the Moto 360 in your hand and using your thumb to dismiss notifications is perfectly comfortable, and your average pocket watch chain length is enough that you can speak commands to the watch comfortably without leaning or tugging, though in a crowded or noisy space this is far less likely to be true.

Obviously heart rate monitoring isn't going to work, and I do wish the feature could be turned off in settings, but the pedometer seems to work the same way when in my pocket. Ambient display was disabled since I glancing down at the watch wasn't going to happen when the device was in your pocket, but not much else needed to be changed. Using the Moto 360 in pocket watch form didn't require much of anything in the way of settings changes. With the appropriate changes in place, everything works exactly as it should. The first edit attempt was exported to Cura, a desktop app for setting up print filed for the Ultimaker 2 I've been using, and 36 minutes later the first attempt was done. I moved to my desktop and used SketchUp 2015 instead, which made editing and modifying the existing structure much easier. It's way to easy to be imprecise, and for something as small as this that wasn't going to fly. I initially tried to make the edits through a pair of CAD apps on Android, but found quickly that touch interfaces are really not great for this kind of thing. The basic cartridge design already existed, so all I needed to do was mess with the existing files in some kind of STL file editor. A quick look on Thingiverse revealed user Laggylarry and his Paracord band adapter for the Moto 360. Putting together the first attempt for this project was surprisingly easy, due largely to how much work had already been done. I'm also not the only one with this idea, in fact there was a Kickstarter for a similar concept in metal instead of plastic.

This is 100 percent a 'because I can' kind of experiment, but I'd be lying if I said the end result didn't have me seriously considering wandering around in public with a pocket watch. I would argue that pocket watches haven't been worn for practicalities sake in a very long time and leave it at that. Yes, before you even go there, I am more than aware that a pocket watch with Android Wear functionality would essentially create a use case where you're performing the same pocket grab for a watch as you would a smartphone in order to do less things.

Smart pocket watch