Build an Off-Grid Touchscreen Pager & Tracker

This design allows you to purchase parts from Amazon, Adafruit, or elsewhere and assemble them on a PCB you can get from PCBWay or even manufacture yourself (gerber file attached).

Assembling the Hardware

There are quite a few steps, but the PCB itself pretty much has the instructions printed on it. Just make sure you stick with exactly the parts listed in the attatched PDF parts list, and it's not too difficult if you know how to solder.

Full Assembly Instructions

Flashing the Firmware

With the hardware assembled, you can go ahead and flash the firmware.

Firmware Flasher for Pager

Final Assembly - Putting Together the Enclosure

The DIY guide walks you through it step by step, but here is a video demo of me putting one together.