Maker Faire Bay Area 2025
Reflections for making mobile entertaining experiences
Home: California
ESP32 and Arduino-based Internet-enabled watch project and reference architecture to make your own entertaining experiences. Many times I imagine making a mobile application connected to the Internet. For example, a watch that shows videos of my children growing-up on my wrist. And the same project is re-used for creative makers to build their own entertaining experiences. Reflections is the architecture and the wrist watch is the first application. Reflections integrates video displays, Bluetooth, Wifi, SD flash storage, sound, and a bunch of sensors (compass/magnetometer, gestures, accelerometer, time of flight TOF sensor). It is battery powered, powered managed from software, and charges from USB. It is small in size (34 mm round) and powerful from an ESP32-S3 dual core processor. Reflections software, hardware, and cloud components are open-source (GPL v3) so anyone can use it and they must contribute improvements back to the project.
https://github.com/frankcohen/ReflectionsOS
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Frank Cohen
Author Frank Cohen invented the real world STARLING pocket watches, including the real Chillovean lights, and has sold nearly 1,000 watches. Frank designed STARLING with Disney Imagineer Terri Hardin. The two have created a known brand around STARLING to Disney fans, cosplay fans, jewelry enthusiasts, and collectors looking for unique art jewelry.
http://starlingwatch.com/
