Hello everyone!

I'm fairly early into my development plan for this project, but I'm feeling pretty excited. This is also my first Hackaday-published project, so I'm excited to hear input and advice from you all on how best to see this through.

I'm not too sure how to start this off, so how about some backstory?

I graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering nearly a year ago, and during that time I gained a little bit of arduino knowledge. Just enough to know there's some really cool potential projects in this field. Not enough knowledge to realize when I'm biting off a little more than I can chew. 

I used to own a Pebble and I adored it. Long battery life, great simple apps, and great watch faces. I stopped wearing mine at some point because while I enjoyed what it could do, I found that a smartwatch doesn't really improve my life in any significant way. I got a Citizen analog watch on the cheap and it's been on my wrist ever since.

I realized at some point a few months back that I missed having a digital display. The casio-lookalike watchfaces on the Pebble were always my go-to's. I started looking at all sorts of digital watches, and there were a lot out there, but none were quite what I was looking for. That familiar little itch started in the back of my brain, and before long I had convinced myself that I could totally make one exactly to my specification. I started ordering parts and set off on this project about two months ago.

So, this project is pretty much just that. I want to make a simple watch with some very basic functions, long battery life (like really, as long as physically possible), and wrap it up in a neat package that I can put on my wrist and not give much of a second thought to.

Allow me to re-emphasize that I'm a mechanical engineer by trade, and my skills in coding are pretty limited. I've been learning as I go, so there's certainly optimizations I haven't discovered or implemented. I've toyed around with the samd21 low power libraries, but haven't included it in this design yet. I intend to!

Thanks for looking! I'll be sure to throw an update over at any major milestones.