![]() He took an active role in the growing community, and when some Arduboy owners started tinkering with adding external storage to their systems so they could hold hundreds of games at a time, he didn’t chastise them for exploring. After the Kickstarter, the Arduboy community continued to grow, thanks in no small part to Kevin never forgetting the open source principles the product was built on. It’s the sort of hacker success story that we live for around here, but it didn’t end there. But the Internet quickly took notice of the demos he posted online, and what started as a one-off project led to a wildly successful Kickstarter for a sleek handheld gaming system that used modern components and manufacturing techniques to pay homage to the 8-bit retro systems that came before it. When creator Kevin Bates showed us the original prototype back in 2014, the idea was to use his unique method of mounting components inside routed holes in the PCB to produce an electronic business card that was just 1.6 mm thick. We’ve always been big fans of the Arduboy here at Hackaday. Image via the Company Formerly Known As Twitter Posted in Crowd Funding, Wearable Hacks Tagged kickstarter, Oscilloscope Watch, PDI, watch, xmega, xprotolab Of course, the Kickstarter rewards are no longer available, but if you want to build your own small, digital ‘scope, check out this DIY STM32 project. One of ’s goals was for people to make their own apps. ’s ‘scope watch features eight buttons around the edge which are user-programmable. ![]() When we covered this ten years ago, the screen was the type of Sharp LCD featured in the Pebble watch. Internally, it has an 8-bit Xmega microcontroller which features an internal PDI, and the display is a 1.28″ E ink display. The watch has 12- and 24-hour modes as well as an alarm and calendar, and the ‘scope has all the features of the Xprotolab dev board, which also created: ‘scope, waveform generator, logic analyzer, protocol sniffer, and frequency counter. Whatever the reason(s) for the delay, the watch looks great, and is miles ahead of the prototype pictures.Īs you may have guessed, it functions as both a watch and an oscilloscope. In late August 2023, backers who had since likely forgotten all about the project started receiving their oscilloscope watches from creator. ![]() It may have taken ten years to come through on this particular Kickstarter, but a promise is a promise.
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