"For those unfamiliar with the saga of Pebble, the budget e-ink smartwatches are Migicovsky's brainchild, and first became widely available in 2013. Color models came later, but by 2016 the company had been acquired by Fitbit, which canned hardware sales and put the Pebble software ecosystem out to pasture. Support for the devices disappeared with the Fitbit acquisition too, leaving independent tinkerers operating under the name Rebble to take up support for the devices of their own accord."
"Migicovsky launched a new company, Core Devices, in March, with plans to release two new Pebble watches. Google's trademark on the Pebble brand had expired, Migicovsky told us, and he now owns it under a new filing. Pebble's newly opened hardware and software First off, all the electrical and mechanical schematics for Pebble's one currently available device, the black-and-white Pebble 2 Duo, are now available on Github for anyone to tinker with or to build their own Pebble 2 Duo."
Pebble has made its entire software stack fully open source and released key hardware design files for the Pebble 2 Duo on GitHub. The original Pebble smartwatches first appeared in 2013 and later saw color models. Fitbit acquired the company in 2016, discontinued hardware sales, and ended official support, prompting independent community support under the Rebble name. Fitbit was later acquired by Google, which open sourced Pebble's operating system in January 2025. Core Devices was launched in March with plans for two new watches; the Pebble Time 2 will ship next year but its schematics are not yet published.
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