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[vvanders]

I was really impressed with the Pebble SDK on this front(aside from the one-message-at-a-time part of the comms API).

Solid clean C API. Phone does all the heavy web-lifting, it really is best of both worlds.

Also PebbleCloud is one of the slickest web IDEs I've seen(working emulator streaming over VPN!).

[petra → vvanders]

Is this something that can applied to a regular embedded development ? how ?

[vvanders → petra]

Pebble is kinda unique in that it's 90% of the time within range of a paired smartphone.

ESP8266 gets close, but I haven't worked with it enough to make a formal opinion on it.

[petra → vvanders]

They also have a new chip, ESP32 , with more ram, IO ,bluetooth, and they say it's just slightly more expensive.

[microcolonel → petra]

With RISC-V on the horizon, whatever they spend on the IP core license could be nixed as well. FreeRTOS port on the way.

Things are looking more and more exciting.