adafruit 1106 Timesquare Diy Watch Kit Instructions

: June 5, 2024
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TIMESQUARE DIY
Watch Kit – Red
Display Matrix
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DESCRIPTION

Show up stylish AND on time to any event with this awesome-looking DIY watch. We have a few Downloaded from Arrow.com.

watch kits here at Adafruit but we ﬁnally have one that looks good and ﬁts well, even for ladies and kids and others with smaller wrists and hands. Its got an 8×8 bit matrix display and a repurposed silicone watch band for a professional look.

64 LEDs light up to tell you the time in a variety of ways. Built into the kit are 3 different watches ‘faces’ – a scrolling marquee with time and date, a binary watch display (for geeks, robots, and binary fans), and a moon phase display (for beach-combers, werewolves). There’s also a built-in battery meter so you can check your battery life. Want to make your own watch? Easy! The microcontroller is an Arduino-compatible, all you need is an FTDI Friend and the Arduino IDE and you can design your own watch faces and upload them to the TIME SQUARE.

Engineered for greatness by PaintYourDragon, this watch squeezes 500-1000 full-time displays out of a coin battery, and up to one year ‘resting’ lifetime, so you can use this as a day-to-day timekeeper.
This watch comes with an ultra-bright red LED matrix and a black silicone watch band that ﬁts all wrists from children to adults.
The band is an “off-the-shelf” band that holds the watch in pretty well, we’ll be creating other bands – the included band is to just get you started! This watch is meant to be hackable, from the software to the band!
This is a DIY kit and requires some basic soldering/assembly to put together. It is a beginner kit, so this is a ﬁne project to use in learning how to solder. Tools are not included, you’ll need a soldering iron, solder, and diagonal cutters as a minimum. Check the tutorial page for details on what tools and steps are required to assemble. Take about 1-2 hours to put together. Build it in the afternoon and you’ll be done in time to hit the clubs in the evening. For more information and downloads check out the page in the Adafruit Learning System.
*To show the watch “in action” photos above have the LEDs on with the lights lowered and added the on-wrist photos with photos taken with ﬂash & studio lighting.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Downloaded from Arrow.com.
Downloaded from Arrow.com.

8×8 ultra-bright red matrix display
ATmega328P chip with Arduino Bootloader
DS1337 real-time clock
CR2032 coin cell included
Read all about it at the Adafruit Learning System!