Google has made the PebbleOS source code available for download and free use.
Original Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky plans to launch a “new Pebble-like smartwatch” with “the same beloved features” as before.
These features include the trademark e-paper screen, long battery life, and “hackable” software for users.
Other groups, including the “Rebble” project for recreating Pebble’s software, will be able to use Pebble’s code for their own watches.
The Pebble brand has been dead for nearly a decade, but Google is allowing its devoted fans and former engineers to resurrect PebbleOS by making the code open-source.
The Google Open Source Blog announced the news, sharing the Github repository for the PebbleOS source code. Although some “proprietary source code” was removed, anyone can take the remaining code and generate a new version of PebbleOS, with functionality like “notifications, media controls, fitness tracking, and support for custom apps and watchfaces” available.
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