Make your own ‘smartwatch’ with Windows 98

Always wanted to own a wearable, but are you a do-it-yourselfer with a penchant for outdated software? A manual will help you on your way to making your own watch with a Raspberry Pi and Windows 98.

Lord_of_Bone lists the essentials on his site 314Reactor, including a touchscreen, Raspberry Pi A+, some Velcro and a wristband. Windows 98, or any other flavor of Windows for that matter, runs on the QEMU emulator.

For turning it on and off, Lord_of_Bone integrates some more buttons, which can also be assigned to other functions with some Python code. The touchscreen does not respond optimally, but he does not know whether this is due to QEMU or a lack of calibration. Windows 98 runs super slow and overclocking the Raspberry Pi doesn’t help much. In addition, the user can expect the necessary bluescreens on his wrist.