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Free software and open hardware isn’t just political, it’s better for the environment. That possibility would also have made replacing the batteries worth doing, and in doing so saved the device from the landfill. There are so many fun things which could be done with a device equipped with an LED matrix, accelerometers and bluetooth - a wearable MIDI controller, for example.
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I’d love to have been able to flash custom firmware to the Fuelband, it’s a lovely bit of hardware, and manufacturing something like that is completely out of the question for a hobbyist. Turns out they’re just soldered straight on: There’s a little IC in there too, but I was more interested in seeing how the pogo pins were attached to the board. The third pogo pin must be for the reset switch, which is mounted in the dock. I also opened up the dock, as I noticed that the USB cable was power only, with no possibility of wired data transfer. Nike's original Nike+ FuelBand was solid not the most affordable or functional wearable fitness tracker we've tested, but arguably the best-looking, and. Removing the cap with a heatgun reveals a tiny circuit board with a tiny battery and vibrating element. If you just got one, or are thinking about it, here's how you set it up. To the right you can see the jaggedy bluetooth antenna trace: The Nike+ FuelBand helps track your activity and motivate you to keep moving. On the back of the LED matrix section, with a part number.
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Featuring Steering wheel control and OBD-II, this high performance computer is a fully customizable 2Din CarPC.
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On the sections of flex between the more solid boards you can see the unbelievably fine traces: Get an outstanding PC for cars designed by E3iO. The LED array, with “Just Do It” written on the top of the PCB (invisible to the end user).
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Here you can see some of the funny curved traces used on flexible circuit boards: Or comparable to Force bracelets, for only 130, but equipped with OLED screens and impressive battery life (11 days). The rubber coating comes off very cleanly. I didn’t find out much which I hadn’t already seen in teardowns, but these devices have such strange form factors that it was fascinating to see the engineering up close. So before throwing the devices away, I took them apart. The Fitbit battery is near impossible to replace, and with the Fuelband I decided that as there’s no way of loading custom firmware (which would let me get at data without an internet connection and proprietary apps), it wasn’t worth trying to get replacement batteries. The old Fitbit and Fuelband which Aaron Parecki gave me a few years ago (thanks Aaron!) don’t hold a charge anymore.