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The how it works section says the following when you expand it:

> Through carefully mechanized components inside, tinyPod's wheel makes direct rotation contact with your Apple Watch crown, letting it naturally scroll anything across the OS.

It has to be mechanical, there are no input ports on the (current) Apple Watches.

Wonder if the diag port would allow for it.

> It's basically Lightning minus the PWR and ID1 pins, because those are for satellite accessories.

There's no diag port any more on anything Watch 7 or later. They switched to a 50 GHz non-contact protocol for diagnostics on the Apple Watch.

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I'm sort of expecting a rubber band around the crown going down to a gear tied to the wheel.

I feel it must be mechanical since it interfaces with crown?

> "What goes around, comes around! Rediscover the delight of tactile scrolling with tinyPod’s physical scroll wheel. And yes, it actually scrolls. How? Through carefully mechanized components inside, tinyPod's wheel makes direct rotation contact with your Apple Watch crown, letting it naturally scroll anything across the OS."

tried to find that as well. the "How it works" section is completely useless.