With his own hands: Apple Watch style Apple II

Smart watches from Apple, which now does not say just lazy, might look very different if they were released 20-30 years ago. Naturally, if the technology were different, and achieve current miniaturization and functionality of smart watches would be difficult. Team electronics enthusiasts decided to create a smart watch, made in the style of Apple II. And these hours work!

Naturally, this is a kind of parody - to create devaysa used quite modern tools and technologies, such as 3D printing. But still, the project was interesting - there's even a "Digital Crown". The clock shows the time and unpretentious image.



Plus, even outfitted with two floppy disks (or rather, their hoax), which failed to reach Apple. It works on the Arduino with Teensy 3.1. Controlling the device is done by Digital Crown. When you rotate the lever, is a change of menu screens. To select the desired menu item you need to press the lever-press.



Besides time, the menu has the following sub-categories: fitness, images, weather, music, phone book and file manager. However, most of the menu items simply show a new image or some text. As for floppy disks, that's 7/8-inch dummies. The color scheme of the body chosen specifically to be similar to the color of the PC chassis 80s.

Detailed instructions on the process of creating such hours authors published on its website . A here process of creating a MOS 6502 emulator (the processor of the Apple II) based on the Arduino.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/248816/