Makerbot Watch
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This is the page for the MakerBot watch. It's a portable and fashionable arduino environment that you can take with you. It also tells the time.

Join the conversation on the MakerBot Watch google group!

Specs:

  • Atmega328 chip with Arduino bootloader on it.
  • 6 pin header for bootloading. Also includes access to 4 I/O pins and power and ground
  • 6 pin header for programming.
  • 4 pin extension header for plugging in other things like sensors or shields that extend the watch.
  • 16mhz crystal.
  • Piezo buzzer
  • 3 pushbutton switches

You will need a serial ttl cable and usbtiny programmer

Here's the makerbot watch part list, and here's a PDF of the schematic for users without a copy of Eagle.

It has 12 LEDs to mark the hour and 12 LEDs to mark the 5 minute marks plus an extra 4 LEDs to mark the 4 extra minutes that aren't shown. So if it was 12:04 the hour LED in the 12 position would be lit up and the Minute LED in the 12 position would be lit up and the 4 extra minutes would be lit up to show that it's 12:04.

Besides having it work on a watch, there are a number of other possibilities because it's an arduino on your wrist!

I'm looking into the possibility of lasercutting or makerbotting the watch case.

Status: Prototypes work. Board is going into production.

Schematic and board designs: http://svn.makerbot.com/trunk/electronics/watch/

A new revision, whose idea originated on the MakerBot Watch google group, has been designed. Prototypes are being built at this time.
You can download schematic and board designs for the rev3 here: http://www.gromain.info/watch3.zip
Join the google group to follow the latest design development.
This new revision implements the following changes:

  • Board is now powered via a 110mAh li-polymer battery
  • Charging chip on board
  • Micro usb port to charge the watch
  • Switch count reduced to two
  • Atmega328 (or atmega168) now clocked with a 8MHz crystal
  • RTC chip on the i2c bus

Here is a render of the new board:
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3D render of the boards have also been made.
Here is what the top of the board might look like:
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And here is what the bottom of the board might look like:
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Resources:
[http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Code/DateTime]
[http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?action=print;num=1200661518]

Other Arduino Clock Projects:
[http://wiki.nycresistor.com/wiki/Time_To_Hack_Binary_Clock]
[http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1206916512/13]
[http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1214682544]
[http://7in7.tumblr.com/post/38066438/open-source-arduino-clock-project]
[http://www.cibomahto.com/2008/03/controlling-a-clock-with-an-arduino/]
[http://hackaday.com/2009/09/16/routertwitterarduino-clock/]
[http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/04/7_segment_clock_built_wit.html]
[http://www.danielandrade.net/2008/07/15/binary-clock-with-arduino/]
[http://www.arkadian.eu/pages/51/my-arduino-clock]
[http://www.dutchtronix.com/Arduino-ClockShield.htm]
[http://www.kencasting.com/?p=313]
[http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Word-Clock-Arduino-version/]
[http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1254160685]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqS4MlzSakg]
[http://timewitharduino.blogspot.com/]
[http://www.headroom.ws/arduino/wrclock/]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC9e5xYkP7Y]

In order to make this work you have to change a text file in the arduino environment. This is because this arduino has a crystal and is basically a regular arduino except that it is running at 3 Volts and the brownout circuit turns things off at 2.8 volts which is not good. This also lets you select your MakerBot Watch from the board choices. Adam figured this out because at this point he's ripped most of the guts out of arduino on the MakerBot project.

Library:

To use these, put the two MakerBotWatch source files into your libraries/MakerBotWatch folder.

  • MakerBotWatch.h — header file that defines MakerBotWatch class with lots of support #defines
  • MakerBotWatch.cpp — source for MakerBotWatch class defintions
  • watch_test.pde — test sketch for simple clock using MakerBotWatch class

Code:

Test Pattern with lights and star wars theme song.

Test Pattern 2 This turns every LED on. Soon it will beep at the end of it's pattern.

board.txt You've got to replace the board.txt file inside the arduino package with this so that it can recognize the MakerWatch. There are options for both 328 and 168 packages.

MakerBot Watch Instructions

Source Code: Soon to come on Thingiverse! For now [http://svn.makerbot.com/trunk/electronics/watch/]

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