SQFMI

1,162 orders since Nov 16, 2017

New York, NY, United States of America

Ships from United States of America.

Custom Work Available

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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.08)

Documentation: (3.65)

Shipping: (3.86)

Communication: (3.97)

All Reviews

Savio | Feb. 26, 2021

Awesome product, took very long to arrive

For Watchy

The product is awesome! No question on that. It only took very long to arrive. I believe it took that long because it came from Hong Kong, I ordered other products from other places such as Latin America and Europe and it arrived way faster.

Response from SQFMI | March 7, 2021

Thank you for your support!

Bill | Feb. 13, 2021

Terrific fun, great construction, I'm gonna buy another

For Watchy

Watchy is just what I hoped it would be - functional right away (minimum assembly required; pay attention to the details!) and endlessly adaptable and customizable. I love e-paper displays, and Watchy's is crisp and clean. I had a couple of questions and I received very fast responses to them. Everything has been great both hardware and software. And the price is amazing - get a Watchy!

Response from SQFMI | Feb. 18, 2021

Thank you for your support! :D

Thomas | Feb. 13, 2021

Makes a lot of fun

For Watchy

Successfully created my own watch faces already:
https://github.com/mistablinky/Analog-for-Watchy
https://github.com/mistablinky/Line-for-Watchy

Response from SQFMI | Feb. 18, 2021

Thank you for your support! Love what you created and shared it on our gallery! https://watchy.sqfmi.com/watchfaces/

Nicola | Feb. 4, 2021

Great watch, fun platform to develop with!

For Watchy

My order started off on the wrong foot with the parcel being returned, for unknown reasons, by HK post, twice! SQFMI has always been very responsive to my enquires and promptly provided new tracking numbers and updates. Eventually, the 3rd attempt, with a courier, was the lucky one.

The watch looks amazing, the e-ink display gorgeous. I took it out for a spin with the default face and the step-counter seems accurate. Been working on some custom faces and it's really great.

Thanks for an amazing product!

Response from SQFMI | Feb. 18, 2021

Thank you for your support!

Joel | Feb. 3, 2021

Absolutely Amazing Watch

For Watchy

So I've been looking for an e-ink watch for a long time. I saw the article about Watchy on The Verge and knew I'd found the one I'd been looking for. It took only a few days to get to me from ordering, and opening the packaging and assembling the watch was part of the fun! I had an issue with the display refreshing, but within 10 minutes of posting a question here on Tindie the dev team was there to help me walk through it (just needed a quick driver update!). Now it's proudly sitting on my arm and I get questions about it all the time. Can't wait for the new hardshell case to come out!

Only thing I will note that was a little difficult was in the instructions it was a little hard to tell where to put the battery after you've applied the adhesive. There's a lot of circuitry on the watch itself and I wasn't quite sure what part of the board the battery was to attach to. (I'm still not quite sure now, but it's all working great so no complaints here!). I think a quick YouTube video link for assembly would go a long way to help people know how to assemble it.

Otherwise, I absolutely love this watch and can't wait to work on my own watchfaces. Three cheers for Watchy!

Response from SQFMI | Feb. 18, 2021

Thank you for your support and feedback! We've now added an assembly video on YouTube :)

George | Nov. 7, 2019

What a useful little device!

For Badgy - IoT Badge

I've seen it on the web and thought this is a great idea. When I got my hands on it I loved it! Construction is good and documentation is amazing. For a first timer with arduino I found it very easy to program it with the provided examples. It takes some effort to resize / crop the images to fit the little screen but other than that is easy to get the device working per your desire.

Because is fragile keep in mind that some kind of case / cover / mount will need to be 3D printed to protect it.

Nicholas | Aug. 1, 2019

Works great

For Badgy - IoT Badge

Really love the badge and the capabilities of it. I've been playing around with some custom code but overall plan to use this as a simple name badge I can update on the fly. My other two cents on this badge are the designer should offer a case or at least the 3d stl files to make a case AND shipping is not from the United States as stated on the Badgy page. My badge came to me from SQFMI in Hong Kong with a customs value of $1.28 USD 8 days after I placed the order.

I will probably buy another one of these for my wife in the near future.

Dominic | July 18, 2019

Cool product - fast shipping

For Badgy - IoT Badge

It is indeed more than a little misleading that this seller says they ship from the USA when they indeed ship from Hong Kong. With that said the item actually showed up in a few days. All the documentation on the the badgy github. I only wish there were more examples to play with.

good product!

Peter | May 20, 2019

Badgy is a great all-in-one deal

For Badgy - IoT Badge

If you're comfortable with the Arduino IDE and you want an all-in-one solution for e-ink with Wifi, Badgy is the nicest looking, cheapest and most fully featured product you'll find.

I've programmed Arduinos of various kinds for pet projects, so getting to grips with Badgy was pretty easy. There's no comprehensive guide or documentation for Badgy so you'll want to examine the examples in the Badgy GitHub repository, and it won't hurt looking at the Adafruit GFX docs and ESP8266 Arduino examples. It can also help if you know some server-side programming language basics so you can aggregate and prepare data from several sources on your server and deliver one concise JSON response instead of wading through an extensive REST API on Badgy if you don't need crazy interactivity with your data.

All in all I'm very happy with Badgy and I've already bought more after I determined that this is a good platform and I've got a number of ideas for it.

Shogo | May 10, 2019

A very good product.

For Badgy - IoT Badge

I think I will have a lot of fun with this product.
If you know how to use the Arduino IDE, I think you will have no problems. Just following the instructions on github and running the example works just fine.

Shipment to Japan worked just fine.

Jean-Philippe | Aug. 30, 2018

A very Good Product

For Badgy - IoT Badge

Badgy is VERY good !
- It's not so expensive
- I'm so happy to receive a piece of hardware that works out of the box without underground skills
- All the samples works, it's easy to create it's own code and upload it a modern way :-)
- There is large / small font, graphics works, ...

What could be improved ?
- Battery life (Arduino sucks at that): 2 HTTP request / day = 30day for 150mAh. There is a connector for a real battery creator should provide a board with battery 1500mAh instead of coin cell (without soldering)
- A 3DPrint case (I made one)
- A front LED
- Don't know if the button wake up the deep sleep (I don't think)

The result in few hours:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7Jupc3YJT8ts3xFy8

Michael | Aug. 23, 2018

Great board, just one hiccup to be aware of

For NSynth Super Semi-Assembled - Google's ML Synth

First I have to say that I thought the board looked great. Which meant something to me because I went with a translucent case. The seller was also very prompt and helpful when replying to my questions. For the price and to have the surface mounted parts already attached, this made it a good value to me. The only thing to be aware of is knowing that if you use this board, you will most likely need the fix documented at https://github.com/googlecreativelab/open-nsynth-super/issues/32 It's easy to apply, so I would still recommend this board if it ever comes in stock again.

Adrian | Aug. 11, 2018

Have an USB-to-serial adapter ready!

For Badgy - IoT Badge

First time I work with e-ink display and ESP8266 deep-sleep. The "hourlyQuote" example application (github.com/sqfmi/badgytree/master/examples) nicely demonstrates Badgy's capabilities. Shipment was fast and email support by the developers responsive.

The github examples supplied by SQFMI include binaries. They compiled well on Arduino IDE, but on Eclipse (I use sloeber 4.2) some 3rd party libraries kicked up syntax errors.

The USB-interface provides power for operation without LiIon and for LiIon chaging, but lacks USB upload capability. The developers suggest OTA upload and support it in their example applications. For OTA upload you will have to use a separate WiFi device with browser (e.g. PC or mobile) in order to configure your access point's IP and password into the ESP8266's EEPROM. Only during this configuration process the ESP8266 acts as the AP (SSID "BADGY-AP") and HTML server vis-a-vis the PC's or mobile's browser. When configured, Badgy is a station on your access point and will automatically connect based on IP and password stored in ESP's EEPROM.

OTA is much faster than USB upload. However when developing your own application or modifying the examples, you will sooner or later either forget to include the OTA support code in the application or a bug will block the application (it happened to me during the first hour of tinkering with the hourlyQuote's code ;-). In both cases you will have to fall back on wire-based serial (FTDI) upload to restore OTA capability. So you better have an FTDI (USB to serial) converter ready right from the start. Connecting RX, TX, 0 and GND is sufficient if you supply power via USB or LiIon. Upgrading the USB interface with an on-board USB-powered (!) FTDI (e.g. using the ubiquitous CH340) would be nice.

Marco | Aug. 11, 2018

Awesome product, awesome team

For Badgy - IoT Badge

This is my first review on Tindie, for this product I have to write something. I bought a number of things from tindie, but this badge is one of the coolest. When I received it had some issue, but after contacting the team, they were able to help me out. The respond was super fast and were able to help be out.

I just have to highlight that communications with them were great and fast. I would definitely buy from them again.

Thank you,

Geoff | Aug. 9, 2018

Badgy is a great product!

For Badgy - IoT Badge

Badgy is great fun.
This is my first play with e-paper, I am very impressed by the contrast on Badgy.
Like all the ESP## OTA updates is a fantastic way to upload new sketches!!!!
The only question I have, and I know it doesn't really matter, but which ESP8266 board in the Arduino IDE is the best selection ?
Keep up the good work
Regards
Geoff

Response from SQFMI | Aug. 9, 2018

Thank you Geoff!

You can use the "NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module)" board selection. Let us know if you have any other questions, and check out our GitHub for documentation and more code samples :)

Claudio | May 10, 2018

Great board

For NSynth Super Semi-Assembled - Google's ML Synth

Got my board and just finished assembling it. I'm really happy about the build quality and the overall aspect of the board, stunning material and robustness, and last but not least it works perfectly.
Shipping took a bit longer than expected, coming from Hong Kong, but the seller quickly answered me and was really helpful.
👍

Marcel | April 24, 2018

Good quality boards.

For NSynth Super PCB - Google's ML Synthesizer

Received my three boards today. Assembled one and it works like a charm.
Took a bit longer than expected for the boards to arrive. They got stuck somewhere at customs.
But the seller was very helpful and communicative.
So, in short, well worth the money! Thanks seller!