Any electrical engineers here? Vibrating motor + time control

[Departed]

Hi guys,

Are any electrical engineers here who could help me get a basic understanding if the following would be simple or difficult to engineer?

I want to insert a small vibrating motor (like this one for example Coin Motor Vibration Dc Motor Cellphone Motor 0820 - Buy Coreless Dc Motor,Coin Type Motor Vibration 0820,Health Protection Equipment Motor Product on Alibaba.com) into a piece of plastic. Then I want the user to be able to switch between different modes when/how often the vibration should occur (every 2 hours, every 4, every 8). Ideally with just one button, no display, maybe 3-4 small led lights to indicate which mode is in use.

What would I need besides the vibrating motor? Some kind of micro-controller, a battery and some LED and a button? How would one go about this with no electrical engineering knowledge at all? Who could I hire to help me design a prototype?

Appreciate hearing your thoughts!

 

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[jpn]

I'm not an electrical engineer, but a bit of a tinkerer, this should be very easy to make from an electrical engineering point of view. I think if you go to an smaller manufacturer they may be willing to do the design. Or recommend you someone to do it for you.

You can also look for en electrical engineer or embedded systems engineer to spec it and write the limited code (if any). And an industrial designer to get the PCB and battery in a housing and do the CAD work.

 

[RecoveringTrekee]

I work as an EE. Pretty much you have everything right, you'd want a battery a button a microcontroller and probably one transistor and however many LEDs you want, and a custom pcb. Do you know how big you want it to be and what kind of battery? I'd probably use an avr attiny microcontroller just because it's easy to program for. The exact one depends on size and how many inputs and outputs. Then you could 3d print a prototype. The big thing on small battery powered stuff is keeping power consumption down when is idle. That's probably firmware thing, not necessarily hard though.

Hi guys,

Are any electrical engineers here who could help me get a basic understanding if the following would be simple or difficult to engineer?

I want to insert a small vibrating motor (like this one for example Coin Motor Vibration Dc Motor Cellphone Motor 0820 - Buy Coreless Dc Motor,Coin Type Motor Vibration 0820,Health Protection Equipment Motor Product on Alibaba.com) into a piece of plastic. Then I want the user to be able to switch between different modes when/how often the vibration should occur (every 2 hours, every 4, every 8). Ideally with just one button, no display, maybe 3-4 small led lights to indicate which mode is in use.

What would I need besides the vibrating motor? Some kind of micro-controller, a battery and some LED and a button? How would one go about this with no electrical engineering knowledge at all? Who could I hire to help me design a prototype?

Appreciate hearing your thoughts!