Upon my return from my Central Europe tour (realistically – Belgium and Germany), I had the parcel everybody loves, A lovely little cuboid from Itead Studio! Contained within were my Eon Smart Watch 3 PCB’s, the ultimate model. As with always, I set to building then pretty soon after receiving the PCB’s as they were […]
Today has actually been a really successful day! I finished the routing of Watch 3 and sent the gerber files to ITead Studio for them to be developed into PCB’s, managed to get my personal Bluetooth packet system working and had a tasty postal order through! One of the things that came in the post […]
3 blog posts in one day! So today, along with my Farnell arrival came the magical package from the far lands of Asia containing my Watch 2 PCB’s! Choosing a black solder mask really brings out the PCB shine and makes the product look more professional already! For only $6 extra, I’d say its worth […]
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 […]
Well! After the minor (I lie – major) disaster with the first design, I’ve redesigned the problems out of the PCB’s and have sent off to Itead studio for them to be made again. hopefully this time, they’re completely working! While I find it really annoying spending £26 on a new set of PCB’s, I’m […]
Oh no! After completing the mainboard PCB, it turns out that I’ve wrongly designed two sections of ther board, damn! The power section has one wrong link and the model that I made for the processor board is 0.1″ too small. I’m a little annoyed but fortunately, these problems can be relatively easily rectified. I’ve […]
Wahoo! Today, to my utmost surprise, all the way from the eastern lands of Asia, my PCB’s arrived! Its been somewhat fast from PCB order to arrival (around 2 weeks, the standard time for an ITEAD order). I’m really happy though the silkscreen quality on the motherboard PCB’s seems to have deteriorated a bit. Regardless, […]
