Ö Bluetooth Ring
Wearable technology is a hot topic right now and it seems like a new smartwatch or fitness tracker is announced every other day! But what about having a tiny computer on your finger? What would you want it to control? I recently came across one of the smallest mbed projects we have ever seen before, the Ö Bluetooth Ring. This tiny personal computer was created by Kevin Bates, the founder of the company Arduboy, and we got a chance to chat with him while on his business travel in route to Shenzhen, China via Hawaii.
This 3D printed, bluetooth ring features a 64x32 monochrome OLED display, and touch button. 4+ hours of battery life with the display on and 24+ hours when in standby. It was prototyped using the Seeed Arch BLE, is programmed with mbed and the final design uses the Nordic nRF51822 SoC wrapped up in a Seeed Micro BLE Module.
This ring allows you to receive and reply to notifications from your cell phone, show fun animations, display digital and analog clocks and much more. Bates is currently working on the final design and ring assembly. He plans to move to the CSP (chip scale package), which will decrease the size of the ring making it more comfortable for daily wear. We are looking forward to seeing how this project progresses and are eager to try it out ourselves.
If you've taken a project from prototype to production (or are in pre-production) we'd love to hear about it. Send a message to support@mbed.org and tell us about it!
