The Apiary Map (apiarymap.com) / Biodlarkartan (biodlarkartan.se) is online again.
The corona virus has given me some extra free time to finally be able to bring The Apiary Map, Biodlarkartan in Swedish, back online after ten months of hiatus. Enjoy!
Yahoo has recently announced it will stop providing its weather data as a free service. This will eventually result in weather in DIN Time for Pebbles to stop displaying.
Since the Pebble platform, in my view, has no future and other weather providers are either costly or doesn’t provide the necessary data this can be seen as the final nail in the coffin for DIN Time for Pebbles.
Enjoy the weather while it lasts. You can still continue to use DIN Time without weather data in the future by disabling weather it in the settings.
In a post in 2016 I wrote I will try to keep DIN Time running on Pebble watches for as long as possible. I’ve gotten questions about making DIN Time work with Gadgetbridge and/or Rebble. To be honest I have mentally moved on from the Pebble platform and my focus is now on developing DIN Time for Fitbit devices. I don’t want to say Gadgetbridge/Rebble will never happen, I just don’t find it very likely at the moment. Perhaps when Gadgetbridge/Rebble has matured a bit I will look into it.
And to save everyone from asking the question again: No, I am not prepared to open-source DIN Time.
DIN Time 1.3.1 has been released! It includes a workaround for Android users who couldn’t use the sliders to set custom colors. It’s not pretty and potentially involves some scrolling, but it should get the job done. Look for “Show alternative Android controls” in the settings!
The main new feature though is the new weather panel! Tap the stats panel to switch to: “Feels like” temperature, Wind direction and speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Humidity, Sunrise and Sunset!
DIN Time was originally created in 2015 for the Pebble Smartwatches and quickly became one of the most popular watch faces on the platform. Now you can enjoy DIN Time in even more colors, on the high resolution screen of the Fitbit Ionic!
DIN Time is a clean, glanceable, watch face with layout options for both left and right hand use. This means that the current time will always be the first you see when you pull up your sleeve.
More features and improvements are planned, which I hope will bring DIN Time for the Ionic closer to the Pebble original.
My first watch face, Pulse-R LED, for the Fitbit Ionic is now available in the Fitbit App Gallery.
Pulse-R LED is a retro inspired LED watch face that fits the design of the Fitbit Ionic perfectly.
If you wonder what ever happened to DIN Time for the Fitbit Ionic all I can say is that it had to wait a bit, but it is up next!
Yesterday I received a Fitbit Ionic directly from the good people over at Fitbit! That means I will do my best to bring one of the most loved Pebble watchfaces, DIN Time, to the Fitbit Ionic!
I’m using Adobe Illustrator to draw and plan my ideas. Next thing: a key case.
Continuing with leather project two, this is a card sleeve, or card holder in pull-up leather. Apparently only vegetable tanned leather can be successfully burnished so I added some beeswax to the edges to keep the fuzzy flesh fibers together. Don’t know if that’s something “you do” though. I’ve probably broken some rule.
I’m struggling with getting my head around stitching backwards though. The first stitch I did, the right one in the photo was easy enough, but then when I did the other one I had do it backwards, because I wanted to start in the same end as the other side. And that meant going from having the front of the item to the right when stitching to having it on the left. And that meant… what? Starting from the front? and putting which needle on top? Etc. etc. I need to look into that.
The blemishes going across the card sleeve is because this piece of leather is taken from the edge of the scrap leather I had. It’s some kind of creases from the tanning process. But I actually thought they were nice and gave some character.
This sleeve for a Fisher Space Pen Bullet is the first real leather item I have crafted and I’m very happy with the result! I had to go through two prototypes before I found the right size for it. The first to were too tight so it was very difficult to remove the pen. But it was good training in cutting, punching stitching holes and doing the stitching. The prototypes were made from scrap leather from an old backpack. The final sleeve however is made from a very nice piece of leather sent to me by Laederiet in Denmark. Unfortunately I don’t know what type of leather it is.
There are a few details I have to do better with my next project, like doing the burnishing before doing the stitching. I now had to skip a spot just were the stitching goes around the edge. But all in all pretty good for a first project, don’t you think?
