With an Arduino-compatible brain, Bluetooth LE connectivity, 3D-printed case, and open-source approach, Jonathan Cook’sย BLE smart watch is the winner of our Arduino Challenge, and will be headed toย Maker Faire Rome this Fall.
The watch is the latest iterationย of an ongoing BLE watch endeavor Cookย has been exploring for the past nine months. In addition to time and date functionality, he’s buildingย interfacingย that any smart-watch wearer would want โ email, Facebook notification, twitter updates, etc., and hopes to have the community furtherย the platform as well. ย “I see this first as an open source “pebble” type project,” Jonathanย explains.
Jonathanย will be sharing the full how-to with Make readers at an upcoming date, as well as documenting hisย build notes on oswatch.org.
Ourย Arduino Month contest, part of the 10-year anniversary of the hugely popular prototyping board, received an incredible amount of highly impressive entrants (thank you to everyone that submitted) and we look forward to sharing some of those projects in futureย posts as well.
In its first year, Maker Faire Rome 2013, co-curatedย by Riccardo Luna and Arduino cofounder Massimo Banzi,ย brought over 30,000ย makers and attendees together to celebrate the Maker Movement with decidedly European flair. This year’s event, happening October 3-5, aims to top that.
We’re excited to see Jonathan there!
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