Round Display Smartwatch
Displays · Board: XIAO · Day 79 of 100
A circular GC9A01 display on the XIAO ESP32-S3 shows time and weather from NTP and OpenWeatherMap. Round-screen wearable chic.
How it works
Time arrives via NTP and weather via the OpenWeatherMap API, and the XIAO ESP32-S3 renders both onto the circular GC9A01 display. Round screens demand circular thinking: the layout wraps around the center instead of filling corners. Wearable chic with real data behind it.
What you'll learn
- Round display rendering
- Circular UI layout
- NTP plus weather APIs
- Wearable data design
Full project: code, wiring diagram & Wokwi simulation
The complete build guide lives in the original repo. Ours is a summary — the real thing is one click away.
Open full project on GitHub ↗Summary by SkillShop. Project by Kritish Mohapatra — code and diagrams belong to the original repo.
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