Smart watch is one of the current buzz words these days. From a tweet I clicked this link. A kickstarter project initiation, this is not the one of its kind but this attracted me because we can use .NET and C# to develop apps. The above link provides the tools you need in order to start developing the apps for AGENT. The AGENT SDK (version 0.2) provides a beta level emulator and Visual Studio project templates as well. SDK utilizes the .NET micro framework.
I created a 2 simple applications using the available AGENT project template.
AGENT Watch Application
This is a simple animated human skeleton and display some text on the screen.
1: using Microsoft.SPOT;
2: using Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware;
3: using Microsoft.SPOT.Presentation;
4: using Microsoft.SPOT.Presentation.Media;
5: using System;
6: using System.Threading;
7:
8: namespace AgentWatchApplication1
9: {
10: public class Program
11: {
12: static Bitmap _display;
13:
14: public static void Main()
15: {
16: // initialize display buffer
17: _display = new Bitmap(Bitmap.MaxWidth, Bitmap.MaxHeight);
18: Font fontNinaB = Resources.GetFont(Resources.FontResources.NinaB);
19:
20: int index = 0;
21:
22: while (true)
23: {
24: _display.Clear();
25:
26: _display.DrawText("Thuru", fontNinaB, Color.White, 44, 2);
27:
28: _display.DrawEllipse(Color.White, 55, 40, 10, 10); // head
29: _display.DrawLine(Color.White, 1, 55, 50, 55, 90); // body
30:
31: _display.DrawLine(Color.White, 1, 55, 90, 40, 100); // left leg
32: _display.DrawLine(Color.White, 1, 55, 90, 70, 100); // right leg
33:
34:
35: if (index % 2 == 0)
36: {
37: _display.DrawLine(Color.White, 1, 55, 55, 40, 75); // left hand down
38: _display.DrawLine(Color.White, 1, 55, 55, 70, 75); // right hand down
39: }
40: else
41: {
42: _display.DrawLine(Color.White, 1, 55, 55, 40, 50); // left hand up
43: _display.DrawLine(Color.White, 1, 55, 55, 70, 50); // right hand up
44: }
45:
46: _display.Flush();
47:
48: if (index == 100)
49: index = 0;
50:
51: index++;
52:
53: Thread.Sleep(1000);
54:
55: }
56: }
57:
58: }
59: }
Output
AGENT Watch Face
This is based on the AGENT watch face. I edited the template code to show the updates every second.
1: using Microsoft.SPOT;
2: using Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware;
3: using Microsoft.SPOT.Presentation;
4: using Microsoft.SPOT.Presentation.Media;
5: using System;
6: using System.Threading;
7:
8: namespace AgentWatchFace1
9: {
10: public class Program
11: {
12: static Bitmap _display;
13: static Timer _updateClockTimer;
14:
15: public static void Main()
16: {
17: // initialize our display buffer
18: _display = new Bitmap(Bitmap.MaxWidth, Bitmap.MaxHeight);
19:
20: // display the time immediately
21: UpdateTime(null);
22:
23: // obtain the current time
24: DateTimeOffset currentTime = DateTimeOffset.Now;
25: // set up timer to refresh time every minute
26: TimeSpan dueTime = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 0, 1000 - currentTime.Millisecond); // start timer at beginning of next minute
27: TimeSpan period = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 1, 0); // update time every minute
28: _updateClockTimer = new Timer(UpdateTime, null, dueTime, period); // start our update timer
29:
30: // go to sleep; time updates will happen automatically every minute
31: Thread.Sleep(Timeout.Infinite);
32: }
33:
34: static void UpdateTime(object state)
35: {
36: // obtain the current time
37: DateTimeOffset currentTime = DateTimeOffset.Now;
38: // clear our display buffer
39: _display.Clear();
40:
41: // add your watchface drawing code here
42: Font fontNinaB = Resources.GetFont(Resources.FontResources.NinaB);
43: _display.DrawText(currentTime.Hour.ToString("D2") + ":" + currentTime.Minute.ToString("D2") + ":"
44: + currentTime.Second.ToString("D2"), fontNinaB, Color.White, 36, 58);
45:
46: // flush the display buffer to the display
47: _display.Flush();
48: }
49:
50: }
51: }
Output
Versatile Digital DNA 