Wearable digital pet accessory that interacts with the outside world using an accelerometer, nfc chip reader, and haptic motors. Tao has different eye animations that change depending on its environment.
No modules, everything on a PCB.
I’ve been seeing these digital pet accessories, similar to a Tamagotchi, on my feed a lot and the company selling these were listing them for ~$300 and I thought “I could definitely make this myself”. These things interact with the environment with some basic sensors which gives the face a signal to change its animation.
Turns out its wayy harder than I thought to make myself. considering my only hardware project I’ve made was a macropad.
There is a lot of pieces and I obviously haven’t built anything like this ever. Instead of adding modules that hook up to a breadboard, I realized that all of those parts can be added to the PCB itself and it all starts with the chip.
I looked for the best chip for each of the different features and looked at the schematic for each. The only chip with a datasheet that actually made sense was for the battery charger, the rest…it took a bit more work.
Anyways tomorrow, I’m planning on trying to finish the schematics so make sure to follow!
