Big Time II Watch

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I am a newbie when it comes to Arduino, but pretty experienced when it comes to embedded electronics and programming.

What would I need to get going with the New BigTime II watch:

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11488

I would really like to get one to hack on, but was curious as to what other startup costs might be involved. Up to now I have mainly used PicAxe.

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Well just to get it working, you would need soldering equipment and a battery. To actually reprogram it, you would need a FTDI breakout, which is a great tool in general even if you are not working with arduino. I use mine in developing all of my projects.

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Thanks. The soldering and assembly are no problem, I was wondering more about the investment for the IDE and stuff.

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Arduino’s IDE is free to download. Again the only other investment would be the FTDI chip. Which I love so even if you don’t go through with doing your project, get because its such a nice cheap debugging tool.