Chapter 7. Advanced Project: FLORA NeoGeo Watch

Make your own LED timepiece (Figure 7-1)! Use FLORA and the FLORA GPS module to tell time with a ring of pixels. A leather cuff holds the circuit and hides the battery. The watch is chunky, but it still looks and feels great on tiny wrists!

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Figure 7-1. FLORA NeoGeo Watch

The circuit sandwich becomes the face of the watch, and you’ll use a tactile switch to make a mode selector. The watch has timekeeping (one LED for hours and one for minutes), GPS navigation (customize your waypoint in the Arduino sketch that you’ll see later in this chapter), and compass modes.

For this project you will need: ...

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