Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch

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 WatchYou 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…