#715 – Shiny New Pebble with Eric Migicovsky

#715 – Shiny New Pebble with Eric Migicovsky

From The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast by Dave Jones & Chris Gammell

February 10, 2026 · 59 min

About this episode

Eric Migicovsky discusses the history of the Pebble Watch and his new projects.

Welcome Eric Migicovsky of Pebble ! Pebble is back after Eric worked with Google to open source PebbleOS and he reaquired the naming rights Eric returns to the hardware space after 7 years, including working at yCombinator , a famous accelerator for early stage startups, and on Beeper , a cross platform app for messaging. While discussing the difficulties of hardware project, Chris brought up a recent post about a high wattage lamp project HN One thing Eric likes about hardware projects vs software is that “hardware projects can be done” as in they have a defined end state A more recent project is a smart ring – The Index 01 . The non-replaceable battery is driven by the product specs, also the need for reliability The ring doesn’t immediately need to be in range of a phone, it syncs the memory after the fact Pebble is no longer a VC backed startup with a subscription model, so that changes a lot of constraints Initially they sold 2 million watches, and 250 million in sales Eric is driven by “gadgets”. He read “pen computing” and “popular mechanics” as a kid Consumer companies vs other types (and why Eric likes the…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Gammell

Guest: Eric Migicovsky

Topics covered

  • Pebble Watch
  • hardware resurrection
  • gadgets
  • technology history
  • loyal ecosystem

Keywords

  • Pebble Watch
  • Eric Migicovsky
  • CoreDevices
  • Index 01 ring
  • gadgets
  • technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pebble, CoreDevices

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