It’s always cool to see how folks interpret our Firewalker Sneakers project – this one is from a couple of freshman at MIT.
We made cool af light-up shoes, just for the kicks!
This was a ProjX project done with Aditi Srinivasan during freshman spring (2017) at MIT. The shoes contain a resistive material in the sole that restricts current flow when pressure is applied. We used an Adafruit Flora to look for rapid changes in current (aka a step) in order to trigger a lighting event. Neopixels were superglued to the soles of the shoes.
Featured Adafruit Products!
FLORA – Wearable electronic platform: Arduino-compatible – v3: FLORA is Adafruit’s fully-featured wearable electronics platform. It’s a round, sewable, Arduino-compatible microcontroller designed to empower amazing wearables projects.FLORA comes with Adafruit’s support, tutorials and projects. Check out dozens of FLORA tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System, with more added all the time! Read more.
Pressure-Sensitive Conductive Sheet (Velostat/Linqstat): This conductive material (also known as “Velostat” or “Linqstat”) is a nice addition for your wearable/sensor hacking toolkit. It’s pressure-sensitive: squeezing it will reduce the resistance, so it’s handy for making flexible sensors. And it’s a lot less expensive than off-the-shelf pressure or bend sensors too! Each order comes with a 11″x11″ (28cm x 28cm) 4mil (0.1mm) thick piece. We may fold the sheet into quarters to ship it to you. To remove any hard creases, simply lay flat on a table and put a heavy book on top to flatten it out. 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!