The Singularitron is a massive wrist-mounted wearable device with four expansion slots. Equip any combination of flashlight, laser, IR thermometer, environmental, and SD card modules, and stun the crowd with RGB buttons. The ultra-bright, extremely breakable VFD adds bright-daylight readability... and style.
Real talk, this does work, but is not intended to be a serious project. A VFD is a terrible choice for a wearable, and many parts of the project are suboptimal, ridiculous, and/or barely functional. Also, I made a bunch of boo-boos on the board and fixed them with airwires. I'll fix that some time, maybe.
That said, it does work, and it serves its purpose - drawing attention at Meetups and conferences - really well. The cartridge form-factor is pretty cool, and this has neat super-small implementations of some interesting parts. Have fun!
I had like 50 of those displays about 10 years ago I was selling off on eBay. Took me a while to get the power right but they are nice, crisp and clear. I kind of wish they had just a simple black on white oled on that size. Humm. I wonder how much it cost to make an oled in that size? Can you order them?
After thinking about this here are some ideas for modules and some improvements, add an air purity and gas detector (lp and natural) ,an x/y servo controlled mirror so the laser can draw pics and send messages, heart and health monitor ,sim module and 16 key alpha/numeric keyboard ,camera , leds for sending messages , vibrator alarm, voice recorder,and on and on.
This is incredible; I love the module concept to expand the uses of it.
I was tempted a while ago to lash a few M5Stack boards together to create some multi-screened, multi-buttoned contraption that had all kinds of interconnectivity with it's WiFi, Bluetooth and i2c bus.
Love this project and I am working on something similar. Might I recommend a module that plugs into the top or side then goes up your arm with ether piezo disks or bone-conducting speakers st the watch can act as a Bluetooth headphones that leave your ears open when you're at meets. This is one of the first modules I will be making for mine. Looking forward to the live stream on this today.
I don't know, it doesn't seem that impractical to me. It's got a cool Pip Boy feel to it. And I really dig the pluggable modules - especially the laser!
i found i company that sells the displays there mouser electronics