GERI_Gadget (under development so bookmark this page and stay tuned!)

GERI Gadget Rev A

The GERI Gadget is a small smartwatch I made for students taking my Biomedical Instrumentation class during GERI Summer Residential 2018. GERI stands for Gifted Education Resource Institute and it's a wonderful group at Purdue that specializes on educational policy, training, teaching methods, etc. of gifted students in K-12. Check out all their wonderful work on their website: Purdue GERI

Anyways, I wanted to create a device that allowed students to get hands-on experience building some sort of Biomedical device. This meant adding enough peripherals so that students could make anything from a pedometer to even a fall alert. Revision A of the watch contains a few peripherals, namely:

  • ATSAMD21 Microcontroller
  • On/Off Switch
  • Battery Charging Circuit
  • OLED
  • Two pushbuttons
  • Buzzer
  • Photoresistor
  • LED
  • LIS3DH Accelerometer

This section is still under development. I will be filling it out over the next few weeks so bookmark this page and stay tuned!

Programming the Microcontroller

A. Installing the board definitions for SparkFun's SAMD21 Dev Breakout Board
B. Installing the proper code libraries

You will need three libraries to get started with the GERI Gadget:

  1. Adafruit's SSD1306 Library
  2. Adafruit's GFX Library
  3. SparkFun's LIS3DH Accelerometer Library

Advanced Setup Instructions

1. Assembling the printed circuit board

2. Booloading the ATSAMD21