Dreamsicle Jacket features light and movement sensors #WearableWednesday
Nice jacket with sensors from Shaeeta Sharar on Vimeo.
Designed, built, and implemented a custom light up wearable jacket design activated with multiple sensors using the Adafruit Flora, NeoPixels, captive touch, lux and gyroscope sensors. Worked within personally set guidelines and time constraints. Oversaw and personally worked on each step of the process including sewing the clothing and circuits as well as programming the code.
FLORA 9-DOF Accelerometer/Gyroscope/Magnetometer – LSM9DS0 – v1.0: Add motion, direction and orientation sensing to your wearable FLORA project with this high precision 9-DOF sensors. Inside are three sensors, one is a classic 3-axis accelerometer, which can tell you which direction is down towards the Earth (by measuring gravity) or how fast the board is accelerating in 3D space. The other is a 3-axis magnetometer that can sense where the strongest magnetic force is coming from, generally used to detect magnetic north. The third is a 3-axis gyroscope that can measure spin and twist. By combining this data you can REALLY orient yourself. Read more.
Flora RGB Smart NeoPixel version 2 – Sheet of 20: So, you want lots and lots of NeoPixels? And you want them for less? Not a problem! Here’s a sheet of Flora NeoPixels fresh from the (reflow) oven. Cut them off as you need ’em and save a pretty penny while you’re at it. Read more.
Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!
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Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!