Make the Orb yours.
Your Orb arrived working, and it can stay exactly as it is forever. Studio is for the day you want more: your own artwork on the clock, your own colors on the radar, a theme that is entirely yours.
Nothing you do here can break your Orb. The themes it shipped with stay untouched, always.
Three steps, one cable
Plug in your Orb
Connect it to this computer with its USB-C cable, and your browser will ask permission once. Websites can't reach into your home WiFi, so the cable is how you introduce them.
Design your theme
Start from a blank dial or duplicate a built-in look, then set sliders, colors, fonts, and your own uploaded art. The preview runs the Orb's own layout, so what you see is what the Orb will draw.
Install it
Press one button. The Orb shows an installing screen while the theme lands, restarts itself, and comes back wearing your design. The clock returning is the all-done signal.
A small chip, doing something ambitious. Here is what that means for you.
None of this is a warning. It is what "an entire radar, clock, and news reader on a chip the size of a coin" actually involves. Knowing it going in makes the Orb make more sense, not less.
It needs WiFi for anything live
Aircraft and headlines both need a network. Off WiFi, or in a dead spot, the Orb is still a clock, an honest one: it says when it cannot reach something rather than making a guess and showing it anyway.
The flight feed can have a slow moment
Aircraft positions come from a small, free, community-run service, not an airline or the FAA. It is usually fast and occasionally not. When it is not, the Orb keeps the last few contacts on screen rather than going blank, and says on the dial when the feed itself has gone quiet.
It cannot make a secure connection
The chip does not have enough spare memory to open one at all, so data that lives behind HTTPS (most news sources) is relayed through a small bridge server rather than fetched directly. Nothing you type goes through it; it only ever moves data toward the Orb, never a password away from it.
A busy theme moves a little differently
A dial with a large sweep image, heavy trails, and a photographic background is doing more work every frame than a plain vector face. Studio warns you where it can before you install, but the honest version is that simpler generally moves more smoothly, on this chip more than it would on a phone.