Photo
Journal
This Section is dedicated to the different photos taken in the disassembly of the product.
These pictures show the product in the packaging it arrived in along with how it appears on the back and front. It also arrived with a plastic clip and a small cloth lanyard so that it may be attached to the waist band of your pants or simply ride in your pocket.
To the begin the dissection, the first step would be to take off the back battery plate exposing the CR2032 battery that was included with the product.
Unfortunately this part of the dissection is where I ran into some issues. There was no clear way to disassemble the product by normal means as there were not clear screws that could be removed, and by checking around the device, I noticed that the entire thing was held together with glue. This meant that the product had to either be pried open by force or the glue had to be melted away. This would prove to be disastrous in my efforts for reassembly.
After the casing was removed, screws were revealed to make the disassembly of the remaining project easy. With the screws gone the liquid crystal display was easily removed. It was connected to the actual board with a piece of conductive foam.
With the board now removed, we can now begin to analyze the device for its components. Here we see both the front and the back of the board.