A Personalized Graphic Business Card

Personalized PCB business cards have been becoming more popular lately, and I decided its finally time for me to make one of my own. As a beginner to PCB design this would also be a great first project.

The Arduino Smart Watch Part 4: 3D Printing An Enclosure

The completed design

I had to take a little break from the Arduino Smart Watch Project in order to build a 3D printer that I used to build the enclosure. Now that the printer is complete here is my progress of prototyping with a 3D printer for the first time. 

My Experience with the Anet A8 3D Printer

I purchased this printer almost on an impulse after seeing how cheap 3D printers got since the last time I checked (it was not too long ago when entry 3D printers started at $500). Anet A8 stood out from the competition for me due to it's low price, good reviews, and big community. My kit, bundled with 1kg of ABS plastic cost me about 170 USD on Ebay.

The Arduino Smart Watch Part 3: Electronics Assembled

Unlike my last blog post this one is going to be mostly pictures. I was able to successfully assemble the watch and get some simple code working!

The Arduino Smart Watch Part 2: Parts List and Soldering

For the first version of the watch I want to create a functioning simple watch with minimal components needed to have it work. This version isn’t going to have a Bluetooth module, but would (assuming I don’t change my mind about anything else) feature similar other base components to the final version. The purpose of creating this basic version is to test out the platform and try making a few simple apps that don’t require Bluetooth.

Here is the current Part List:

      1.       3.3V 8mhz Arduino Pro Mini       

      2.       DS3231 Real Time Clock

      3.       I2C 128x64 OLED

      4.       TP4056 Battery Charging and Protection Circuit

      5.       3.7v 500mAh LIPO Battery

      6.       Power Switch

      7.       Button

      8.       FTDI Programming Board

The Arduino Smart Watch Part 1: The Idea and Future Plans

So, the open source Arduino watch project begins.


A fair warning: this is my first venture into blogging to document my project progress, so the first few posts might be a bit rough around the edges. Also, the first several blog posts on the project would be retroactive, as I decided to fully document it half way through. However, there is still a lot more work to be done so future blogs will be up to date.