Category: Eon Smartwatch

My Eon Smartwatch blog

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Eon Smartwatch – 80% completion improvements

One of my original sources of inspiration was from an awesome youtuber’s product (Dave Jones and his μWatch – Youtube: http://goo.gl/OjkGjg, the μWatch itself: http://www.calcwatch.com/index.html). This guy is absolutely brilliant and some of his youtube video’s are utterly hilarious! I’ve got him to thank for his brilliant video on product design on helping me design both the newer versions […]

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Eon Smart Watch – 13/5/14

Its been a long time since I last did an update about this but today was a great day for progress! I gave it a bit of a rest because my design was a bit dodgy and I forgot to bring out the SWO pin (PB3) but after more in depth research, it turns out […]

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Eon Smartwatch build 23/2/14

So my PCB’s arrived the other day and after attempting to solder one up, I failed drastically on the LQFP48 package and completely screwed up my STM32 IC. After much frustration, I placed another order with RS for some more IC’s and picked them up yesterday. With much more care, consideration and solder wick, I […]

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Eon Smartwatch 18-2-14

Today, I borrowed my friends bike to go down to the sorting office (6 and a half miles there and back!) and picked up my PCB’s that have arrived from Hong Kong! As per usual, I’m really happy at the quality from ITead studio and would happily recommend them to anybody wanting to get PCB’s […]

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Watch PCB’s

With hope, I should be receiving my watch PCB’s next week some time. I bought them off Itead Studio (http://goo.gl/BxYS8h) as I’ve bought from them many times before, they have brilliant prices and have a pretty fast turn around normally! Knowing the PCB’s are on the way, I’ve also placed my order with RS for […]