Seeker Hats: A pair of hats the tells where the other is located #WearableWednesday

JohnPetersen posted this great project on github- a pair of hats the “seek” each other out with directional LEDs. Via Hackaday.

What are Seeker Hats?

Seeker hats are a pair of hats that can tell the wearer the direction of the other hat. This allows the wearers of the hats to find one another.

The hats use an array of LEDs mounted under the brim to indicate the direction of the other hat.

Motivation

For the 2013 Maker Faire I built a blinky light hat for my son to wear. It used a Flora, a LSM303 compass and eight WS2812 LEDs. Rather than making a hat with more LEDs for 2014 I decided to make something useful. Based on our differing interests I thought a pair of hats that would let us separate yet give us the ability to locate each other quickly would be useful.

Parts Used

Each hat contains the following parts:

  • Spark Fun Fio v3
  • xBee Pro S1
  • Adafruit Ultimate GPS
  • Adafruit Flora Compass
  • Adafruit Flora Neopixels (5x)
  • 2500 mAh lipo cell

How it works

Hardware

  1. GPS receiver on hat determines location.
  2. xBee is used to exchange location data with the other hat.
  3. Compass is used to determine the orientation of each hat.
  4. The Fio computes the azimuth to the other hat and the difference from its heading.
  5. The Neopixel in the direction of the other hat is illuminated.

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