VHS Pride for Pebble

No, not that kind of pride.

After creating the Spaceship Earth watchface, I really wanted something a little more... functional. As a high school student - especially an antsy one - I was always looking forward to the end of the current class and the start of the new one. But when were those? Trying to remember start and end times for seven classes a day was challenging - add in the shifting schedule times thanks to shortened wednesdays? Impossible. Or, at least inconvenient.

So I made a watchface.

Flick your wrist, a drawer rolls out from the bottom with the entire day's bell schedule. Let it fall back down, and you'll see simple little displays for the start and end of the current block, what period school was in, and even a count-down timer to the end of the period. Add in a fancy analog clock (with an arc on the minute hand representing the distance it needs to travel to end class) and you're now so overloaded with information you'll never need to open your planner.

It's... a lot.

But such was Thomas in high school.

The best part was the bell schedule was actually drawn as an image - it was fixed. I wouldn't be able to go through and adjust it for other school years without changing the source image and rebuilding the app. Not sustainable.

Of course, the next year I enrolled in Dual Enrollment at the local community college. Now only at high school less than half the day, I had no such need for the crazy details of this watchface. But it was still fun to have.

You can view the watchface in the Rebble Appstore here: https://apps.rebble.io/en_US/application/5611916f9af990f8ce00002f

The source is available on my GitHub here: thomasstoeckert/vhsface: A watchface for Pebble, based around my high school (github.com)