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DIY Arduino Dot Matrix Watch

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taifur (/recipe/index.php?m=Home&controller=User&action=profile&uid=130807)

2016-01-30

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Wrist watches are amazing and fancy fashion accessories for men and women. Makers always like to use something different. My diy
arduino dot matrix wrist watch is the final output after one month working. The watch shows time, date and temperature in two
different form, BCD binary format and digital format. BCD binary is dedicated to maker and tech people as it is not understandable to
common folks. Two button is used to adjust time and changing display mode. For making the project you need some experience of
soldering of surface mount (SMD) components.

STEP 1: STUFFS YOU NEED

Arduino UNO for programming
ATMEGA328P SMD
DS3231 RTC
1.2 inch Dot-Matrix Display
Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter - Spare battery (Seeed Studio (http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/Crazyflie-Nano-Quadcopter-Sparebattery-BCBL01A-p-1362.html))
100R SMD Resistor (8pcs) (R1-R8 in schematic)
10K SMD Resistor (3pcs) (RST, RSDA, RSCL in schematic)
16 MHz Crystal
Tactile Button (2pcs)
1.5 inch X 1.3 inch PCB board
Plastic Wrist Band
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Soldering Iron
Soldering Paste
Tweezer
Wire Cutter
Hand Drill
Safety Glasses

STEP 2: MAKING THE CIRCUIT

I used Atmels high performance, low power 8-bit AVR ATMega328 TQFP package as the main controller of my clock. A high precision
DS3231-based real-time clock module is used for time keeping. The DS3231 is a low-cost, extremely accurate I2C real-time clock (RTC)
with an integrated temperature- compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) and crystal. So, no need to used external crystal oscillator and
its operate from 2.3 to 5.5 V.

As a display a single color 1.25 inch 8x8 dot-matrix display is used. Both common anode or common cathode display can be used. You
have to adjust the program accordingly.
Two right angle tactile button is used for time adjustment and clock mode changing. If you carefully check the circuit diagram you will
notice that one button is connected to Atmega328 INT0 pin and another to PB1 pin. You can connect the second button to any other
pin but should not change the first button. Because I used the button one to wake up the controller from sleep mode. For wake up the
IC you must use external interrupt and for this reasons I used INT0 (external interrupt) pin for first button. 2-pin header is connected
for charger and battery connection.
Eight 100 ohm current limiter resistors are connected to the row pins of the dot-matrix.
I designed the schematic in Eagle CAD. Eagle schematic file, image file and pdf file of the schematic are attached here.

STEP 3: DESIGNING THE PCB LAYOUT

I have tried to keep the PCB size as same as the matrix display. Two buttons position is kept to the right side of the board. I tried to
keep the bottom route minimum because I used single side PCB and connect the bottom route by jumper wire.

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Eagle board file and a pdf version is attached here. From the schematic you see two capacitor is connected to the crystal but not
present in pcb. Without these the circuit works well without any problem.

STEP 4: MAKING THE PCB

I used Toner transfer DIY method to make the PCB. Some image are attached. If you want to make your own PCB you may follow this
instructables: DIY Customized Circuit Board (PCB Making). (http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-A-Customized-Circuit-Board-MadeEasy/)

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For double sided PCB you may follow: Two sided PCB using toner method
(http://reprap.org/wiki/DIY_PCBs_double_sided_toner_transfer)
DIY PCBs double sided toner transfer (http://reprap.org/wiki/DIY_PCBs_double_sided_toner_transfer)

STEP 5: DRILLING THE PCB BOARD

After etching and cleaning the PCB board you have to drill the pad of matrix display and button. I used mini hand drill to drill the PCB
and image is attached.

STEP 6: SOLDERING THE COMPONENTS

After drilling the PCB we are now ready to solder the components. Carefully solder ATMega328 first to the pcb. It has smaller pad
compare to other parts of our project. Then solder the matrix-display, then RTC and then Resistor. Three 10K resistor is used in the
project. Two are used for pull up of RTC SDK and SCL pin and another another is for pullup the reset pin of ATMega328. All other eight
resistors are 100 ohm.

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If you used one side PCB board like me, now connect the bottom routes by thick insulated jumper wire.

If you are new in SMD soldering I recommend you to watch the video before you start soldering.
Video: EEVblog #186 - Soldering Tutorial Part 3 - Surface Mount (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9FC9fAlfQE)
Sparkfun: SMD How To - 2 (https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/96)

WATCH SOURCE CODE

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STEP 10: UPLOADING THE PROGRAM

Our program is ready. It is the time to upload the program. I used ISP programming mode to program ATmega328 chip. After soldering
the IC to the PCB board temporarily solder six jumper wires to MISO, MOSI, SCK, RESET, VCC and GROUND pin (Fig. 1). All pins are
marked in the PCB layout. Connect Reset, MOSI, MISO and SCK pin of the board to Arduino pin 10, 11, 12 and 13 respectively through
jumper wire. Connect VCC and Ground pin to Arduino 5V and GND pin respectively.
Now, upload Arduino ISP program from example to your arduino uno board (Fig. 2). Now arduino uno will act as ISP programmer.
Open the watch sketch and select Upload Using Programmer from the File menu (Fig. 3). Wait for a while, your program will be
uploaded to the ATmega328 chip.
Git repo includes complete-sketch and required library.
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