FitBit One – a marvel of miniaturization

I used to call my beagle Peanuts my FitBit. We walked together for hundreds of miles. With his passing last week, it is so nice that my nephew gifted me a FitBit One for Christmas.

The more I look at the little device and the data it is constantly communicating to my iPhone, the more admiration I get for all the technology jammed into this little package.

The components from an iFixit teardown include

• STMicroelectronics STM32L 151 ARM-based SoC microcontroller

• Nordic Semiconductor nRF8001Bluetooth chip

• Accelerometer labeled 8304 AE D42 oW

• Measurement specialties MS5607-02BA03 altimeter

• Polymer Li-Ion Battery

• PCB mounted vibration motor

It also comes with a tiny USB Bluetooth dongle to synch with a laptop for initial set up.

Enough admiration of tiny components. Need to rack up some large metrics that Peanuts would approve.

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