I built this set-able timer project using XinaBox ☒CHIPS. This project was meant to be an easy, fun way to limit meeting times in our office and make them more effective. It is a simple, quick build with straight forward software. The XinaBox technology made the hardware build of this project extremely easy to do in under 5 minutes.
What you will needApart from the set of ☒CHIPS, you will need Arduino installed and the following libraries.
- ESP8266 Board Driver from Arduino Board Manager
- xCore (XinaBox Library)
- xSH01 (XinaBox Library)
- xOD01 (XinaBox Library)
Click in an IP01 ☒CHIP onto the CW01 using an XC10 connector and plug into a USB port on your computer. Connect as shown in the picture below.
Open Arduino and under Tools select Board: "XinaBox CW01" and set the rest of the settings the same as in the picture below, select the correct COM port, then upload the sketch, which I will provide in the code section of this page.
Basically no building here! The ☒CHIPS make it very easy, simply click them together with the XC10 connectors until it looks like the picture below. The only thing to bare in mind, the small XinaBox logos with chip name must all face the same direction, the bus at the top and bottom of the board are NOT the same. Usually the boards have a large logo at the bottom.
Plug into USB and watch (pun intended) it come to life! So the basics to operate this nifty little device. Cross is Start/Pause. Square and Circle will decrement/increment the timer set point in 30 second increments. Triangle is set/reset using the set point value. Have fun! See the video below on how it works.
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