Well after months of waiting and designing, I’ve finally managed to build the Eon V smartwatch! Why its version 5, I’m not to sure other than other few that actually worked though five sounds good so I’m going to keep it. I came across a fair few problems with the implementation of this watch, predominantly […]
Well I decided to buy a dedicated USB STLink V2 adapter off eBay for Watch 2 (http://goo.gl/urzxxj – As with all eBay links, it will expire!), for a ridiculously cheap price of £3.11. This is pretty much just the front section of the STM32 discovery board in a standalone dongle, by using a standard 10 […]
So as my favourite form of exam (or general) procrastination, I’ve been designing a new smartwatch! This one is based on the new STM32 range and will include a TSSOP (http://goo.gl/TAUKS8) microcontroller instead of a pesky QFP (http://goo.gl/ccKwXR), they’re not particularly different other than the TSSOP package doesn’t have pins on all 4 sides. I’ve […]
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 […]
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 […]
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