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Describe a device you wish existed. Bobbin designs the case, the electronics and every step to build it.

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Bobbin, Stepware's guide, pointing at the download button

One sentence in. Everything you need to build it out.

You don't need to know electronics or CAD. Say what you want, and Bobbin works out the parts, the wiring, the code and a case that fits them, then shows you how to put it together.

make me an alarm clock that looks like Bobbin, and make the button on top of his head the snooze button What you type
Rendered case of the Bobbin alarm clock, his amber head cap on top

The case

24 printable parts shaped like Bobbin and checked around the exact boards inside. His head cap presses the snooze button.

U1 Pico HH1 GroveShield D1 OLED S1 Head Z1 Buzzer GP6, GP7GP20GP18

The electronics

Which board, which pin, which cable. Plug-in Grove parts, no soldering, and code you can try in a simulator first.

U1Raspberry Pi Pico HSeeed
H1Grove Shield for PicoSeeed
D1Grove OLED 0.96″Seeed
S1Grove ButtonSeeed
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The shopping list

Every part, with where to buy it.

  1. Print the 24 parts in PLA
  2. Plug the OLED into I2C1
  3. Plug the head button into D20
  4. Test before closing
  5. 10 more steps

The build

Print files for every part, then step-by-step instructions, with a test before you close it up.

Watch Bobbin make the alarm clock.

The Mac app, start to finish: the request, Bobbin's progress in the chat, then the case, electronics, shopping list and build, one at a time.

The Stepware app: Bobbin's chat on the left, the finished alarm clock case on the right
The Mac app, start to finish, in under a minute.Open it full size

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