MetaWear: Production Ready Wearables in 30 Minutes or Less! by MbientLab Inc.

MetaWear is the world's first development and production platform designed specifically for Wearables. It comes in a tiny form factor to fit any product and is manufacturing ready, certified, and cost optimized.

All you have to do is create an iOS or Android App and in minutes, you have a production quality Bluetooth Low Energy product you can sell!

IoT + BLE HARDWARE GETS A SIMPLE ANDROID AND IOS API

With MetaWear, You can create hardware that connects to a Smartphone effortlessly.

Everything works right out of the box so you can build prototypes fast and effortlessly.

Simply download or fork the API on Github, pick and choose the sensors you want to use on the MetaWear board, customize your App, turn on LEDs and get feedback from the accelerometer and voila! You have a functional product with hardware and a mobile App!

SO YOU HAVE AN IDEA? CHECK OUT OUR PROJECTS

You can check out how easy it is to get started with our LED Toggle Demo here.

BUILD PRODUCTION READY WEARABLE HARDWARE

We love development boards, they are great for prototyping but they can only take you so far. Traditional development boards have a lot of shortcomings including size, cost, and scalability. A Raspberry-PI doesn't fit into a necklace, a bracelet, or a shirt. You cannot send an Arduino prototype to a factory or ship it to your customers door.

MetaWear removes the step between prototype and fabrication; it is built with simplicity and manufacturability in mind. The board has been cost and BOM optimized so you can easily make 1 or 1 million.

The antenna on the board has been CE and FCC certified by a professional TCB lab in California. This makes it easier if your are selling your MetaWear based product and reduces your expenses and paperwork.

We take the hardware development out of your product and reduce prototyping time and cost by more than 90%.

THIS BOARD HAS A TINY FORM-FACTOR THAT FITS ANY APPLICATION

MetaWear is only 17mm x 26mm.

The micro form-factor means you are free to embedded the board in any device, no matter how small.

There are no limitations anymore, MetaWear is so tiny it can be embedded into a t-shirt, watch, bracelet, key-chains, glasses, even jewelry.

MAKE COOL THINGS

We created MetaWear because we love building things; especially Smartphone and Bluetooth connected things. So while the kit is fun enough on its own; it is the projects you can build with MetaWear that really excite us.

Here are just a few examples of what you could build:

Anti-theft and authenticity checker for valuables like your bike, Prada purse, or Gucci wallet
Turn your favorite lamp into an automatic Tweeting lamp
A clip-on that vibrates when your teammates push changes to your repository
Your very own "That was Easy" Button
Build a lover's necklace that sends text messages to your significant other
Turn a headband into a fashionable accessory that counts calories and miles
Create iBeacons and devices for home automation
A motion alarm to detect thieves and intruders
A generic BLE button with unlimited functionality. It triggers an automated text message or ignores a call when you are driving
A camera trigger for your Smartphone
Trigger a fake phone call to get out of that meeting with the managers
A handlebar mounted device with a speed indicator, turn signals and LED feedback when you get a call
Add haptic feedback pods to your mobile game or app
Make the Oculus-Rift even more realistic with force feedback for full body immersion

These are just a few of the projects that we have imagined. We will be sharing these ideas, and any others hacks we build in the future, through Kickstarter updates and on our site.

A SIMPLE API FOR IOS AND ANDROID

Our developer friendly API means you control the MetaWear board from an iOS or Android App.

The API is all about Bluetooth connectivity and leveraging sensor data from your MetaWear board to any Android or iOS Smartphone. With the API you can connect the MetaWear board to any BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) smart device seamlessly.

You control all peripherals, sensors, and IOs using simple function calls over BLE.

Just download our documentation and sample Apps from Github and get started. It's that simple.

Do you want to toggle the LED On and Off using a random color? There is one API call for that.

Need accelerometer data for your Fitness Tracker? There is one API call to enable the accelerometer and one callback to get the X,Y,Z data.

We wrote the firmware on the ARM Core for you. That frees you up to focus on your App and the user experience of your product.

Now all you have to do is customize the MetaWear sample iOS or Android App for your application.

PRINT METAWEAR CAD ENCLOSURES FOR A COMPLETE SOLUTION

We don't want your beta testers to see a bare PCB board so we make it easy by providing you with CAD enclosures that fit the MetaWear board.

Get on the MbientLab MetaWear store on shapeways.com and print our MetaWear ready enclosures.

You can choose from shapes including a heart pendant, a bracelet, a pill-box, or a simple rectangular case to complete your MetaWear based product.

Now you are only hours away from a fully demonstrable prototype.

CUSTOMIZE TO GET EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED

This board packs a punch in a tiny form-factor; there's nothing you can't build with MetaWear.

The MetaWear basic platform comes with the MetaWear board, a rechargeable USB battery, a coin vibrator, and a buzzer. Keep what you want, leave out what you don't.

The MetaWear kit comes with the MetaWear board, a rechargeable USB battery, a coin vibrator, extra goodies, and a surprise bonus accessory you will get when we ship.

CUSTOMIZE AT ANY LEVEL

We don't want you to be limited in any way so MetaWear was built for everyone; professional and learners alike.

There's even extra GPIOs and an I2C bus you can use to add additional sensors to the board. You can add an LCD screen, a Heart Rate sensor, or a gyroscope and extend MetaWear's functionality.

OUR TEAM AND STORY

We are a team of engineers, designers, and thinkers who wanted to help lower the barrier to creating compelling Smartphone connected hardware. Many people have been involved in various ways, but the core team members are Matt and Laura.

We've been building connected hardware and consumer products for a long time and we really love doing it. We are BLE and embedded devices experts and we wanted to help future hardware developers, engineers, hackers, tinkerers, and Makers.

We set out to build a different kind of development board. We don't have the time or the budget to build custom PCBs for every project and we hate ripping apart our prototypes to salvage components. Most dev boards are simply too big and power hungry for many projects where we only need a few pins and sensors. And so MetaWear was born!