You can easily disassemble this repairable smartwatch using just a Phillips screwdriver

The Spectra is simply a caller smartwatch designed from the crushed up to beryllium hackable and casual to repair. It was created by Pocuter, a institution that has spent the past fewer years honing an expertise successful gathering tiny electronics similar its tiny Pocuter One computer. What makes the Spectra unsocial is that it’s repairable, yet with a plan that mirrors the Apple Watch which is overmuch harder to get into.

The wearable is present disposable for preorder done a Kickstarter crowdfunding run with transportation expected arsenic aboriginal arsenic July 2025. Early backers tin preorder 1 discounted to astir $209, portion afloat pricing is person to astir $272. The Spectra is the company’s seventh Kickstarter campaign, but besides appears to beryllium 1 of its astir ambitious. Three years into processing the prototype it inactive hasn’t afloat finalized the hardware, truthful portion determination whitethorn beryllium little hazard with backing this one, there’s inactive some.

Powered by an Espressif ESP32-S3 processor “maxed retired with 8MB RAM and 32MB executable flash memory,” the Spectra has a 368x448 AMOLED display, a integer crown, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, fittingness tracking and biology sensors, and a microSD slot wrong allowing retention to theoretically beryllium boosted to fractional a terabyte with a representation card. That’s each stuffed wrong a CNC milled aluminum framework that the institution plans to merchantability upgrades for, including a stainless alloy alternative.

The Spectra’s interior plan besides prioritizes entree to the battery, iFixit discovered, with a mainboard that swings retired of the mode and the usage of outpouring contacts alternatively of a cablegram that needs to beryllium detached. Small devices similar wearables and earbuds typically person batteries that are notoriously hard to swap, but similar Fairphone’s Fairbuds, possibly the Spectra volition promote different companies to alteration that.

The Pocuter squad “plans to supply replacement options for each azygous part,” it told iFixit, which shared conscionable however easy an unassembled prototype of the smartwatch is to physique and aboriginal disassemble. (Pocuter hasn’t specified if the last ticker volition beryllium shipped pre-assembled.) Seven Phillips caput screws clasp it each together, alternatively of glues and epoxies that often marque repairs overly analyzable oregon wholly impossible.

The wearable volition besides tally a customized operating strategy called SpectraOS based connected JavaScript. Promised features see an interactive debugger streamlining app development, unafraid exertion sandboxing, and enactment for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It won’t person entree to Apple oregon Google’s robust app stores, truthful taking afloat vantage of the Spectra whitethorn payment from immoderate coding experience, not conscionable basal screwdriver skills.