Jesse Leonard on YouTube made this neat hat for being safe while running at night.
Running hat for running at night. First prototype with Arduino uno using Adafruit’s neopixel library and “strand_test”. A Gemma and lipo battery came in the mail today just in time to make the hat self-contained (no USB battery needed). It’s a bit dangly right now but it survived a couple mile run tonight without flying apart. Right now I’m using the example code for the Neopixel Hoops https://learn.adafruit.com/gemma-hoop… but may start playing with some run specific sequences and colors to improve my visibility for night running. Thanks Adafruit for the inspiration and documentation!!
Featured Adafruit Products!
Adafruit GEMMA v2 – Miniature wearable electronic platform: Love FLORA but want a bite-sized version? Look no further, GEMMA is a tiny wearable platform board with a lot of might in a 1″ diameter package. Powered by a Attiny85 and programmable with an Arduino IDE over USB, you’ll be able to realize any wearable project! Read more.
Adafruit NeoPixel Digital RGB LED Strip – Black 30 LED – BLACK: You thought it couldn’t get better than our world-famous 32-LED-per-meter Digital LED strip but we will prove you wrong! These NeoPixel strips have 30 digitally-addressable pixel LEDs per meter and are very affordable and are only 12.5 mm wide, 10 mm if you remove the strip from the casing. This is the strip with black flex PCB, its identical to the white 30 LED/meter except it has a different color mask on the flex strip. Read more.
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