Despite the MicroView shipping a ton of units, we haven’t seen many projects using this tiny Arduino and OLED display in a project. Never fear, because embedded systems engineer, podcaster, and Hackaday Prize judge [Elecia White] is here with a wearable build for this very small, very cool device.
The size and shape of the MicroView just cried out to be made into a ring, and for that, [Elicia] is using air-drying bendy polymer clay. To attach the clay to the MicroView, [Elecia] put some female headers in a breadboard, and molded the clay over them into a ring shape. It works, and although [Elecia] didn’t do anything too tricky with the headers and clay, there are some interesting things you could do running wires through the clay.
What does this ring do? It’s a Magic 8 Ball, a game of Pong controlled by an accelerometer, a word-of-the-day thing (with definitions), all stuffed into a brass silicon, OLED, and clay knuckle. Video below.
If you’re wondering, Turbillion (n). A whirl; a vortex.
Cool, but a bit big for a ring should be a watch.
PIMP RING BABY
Yes, exactly. It is definitely a statement ring, not subtle at all. I’m not so much into watches. But, in a meeting, I can tap my finger to get a word and still look like I’m taking notes.
Even better, arrange some of them as buttons on a shirt, make they talk each other through IR and implement text/graphics/color effects travelling through them.
There’s a color version of this now available on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rabidprototypes/pixelduino-the-arduino-with-an-awesome-oled-displa
While certainly cool; these are not “available” on kickstarter. Rather, one can fund the project and hopefully receive a working unit as a reward (my best wishes for the group’s success.) Don’t get it twisted, KS was never intended to be a pre-sale site. Treating it as such is a good way to be disappointed.