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Tilt activated LED watch

oshparkoshpark wrote 01/05/2017 at 14:55 • 1 min read • Like

@askoog89 saw a major flaw with many LED watches – you have to press a button to see the time:

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A Watch

I tried fix that problem by using a tilt switch to active the LED showing the time when tilt your arm to look at the watch

https://hackaday.io/project/301/gallery#3ab3b3777793c73656ec101ebf6587a1

The watch uses the low power MSP430G2211 MCU from Texas instruments to control the LED and mesure the time with the help of a 32kHz watch cristal. The MCU sleeps most of the time only waking up ones a second to count up the time and check if the tilt switch is active. To show the time the watch uses 12 charlieplexed orange LEDs.

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