Watch Winder

The Story:

While in Rutgers School of Engineering, our class was assigned an Arduino project to introduce us to the basic use of Arduinos. We were tasked with combining at least two Arduino modules, and writing code to get them to work together. I chose the stepper motor module, the LCD module, and the IR Remote module. I modified the stock code to make them all work together as a pseudo watch winder for my automatic winding watch. The remote allows the user to choose which direction to turn the watch, or to run the full regiment of 25 turns in each direction.

The Rough Setup

Demonstration

Metal mount vs 3D Printed mount

Makeshift Mount for Stepper Motor