Most of us have seen the videos and articles about "hacking" digital calipers. 99 percent of them talk about reading the caliper value out of a port on the side of the device. I don't know about you, but using a port as per design does not represent true hacking to me.

I decided to make a digital caliper from scratch. Make my own boards and write my own code.

There are few goals I want to set first. I want this to be an exemplary project. What does this mean to me. I want everything to be well documented. All schematics, gerbers, code etc. must be kept up to date, so that anybody could take them and make their own. A set of clear build instruction. I think I document my projects well, but unfortunately this is not the case. One too many times I have return to a project after a few months and found some crucial piece of information is missing. I have not written down the correct value of a resistor, or the PCB has changed and I did not save it.

You can follow the project at my Hackaday page here:

https://hackaday.io/project/194778-diy-digital-caliper