CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino Bike Patch

In this intermediate soft circuit tutorial, I show you how to make a light-up patch (mine is from http://fffff.at) that can be used on your backpack for fun and bike safety. Get the code and details at http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/04/craft_video_lilypad_arduino_bi.html

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• lilypad
• arduino
• soft
• circuit
• craftzine
• conductive
• thread
• led
• light
• bike

[s67impala]

What kind of programming language is that?

[makemagazine]

Arduino is actually a kind of wrapper around a subset of C.

[neothespian]

Very cool. I wonder if you could take it a step further and use EL wire instead of the LED's? I think it would ROCK to sew turn signals right into my motorcycle jacket!!!

And, to all you jerks out there: I think she's rather pretty :) I have a total thing for girls with brains...and cute to go with.

Ya know, if you're ever in Mesa, AZ there's this technical theater designer who wouldn't mind taking you out for a coffee or somethin'.... just saying.....

[makemagazine]

Thanks, but I'm taken! I actually live in Tempe, coincidentally.

[Quake120]

Your superficiality is staggering. She isn't THAT bad looking at all, plus she is obviously intelligent enough to make things like this and doesn't spend her time posting asinine comments on YouTube like you've chosen to do. One day a girl like this is going to defenestrate you and we shall all laugh.

[bellicose2009]

Is that conductive sowing thread? iv never seen that before

[teaguen8879]

@0billgeld0 You're brains = Dog shit

[0billgeld0]

your intro = shit



[CRlSTO]

i would scream UFO if i saw those lights at the road when i was driving :o

[puchenyaka]

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[Elune137]

Cool project!

By the way, if you are concerned about the safety of your LiPo battery,

there are LiPo safety bags on the market that even endure an explosion of the battery. It's purpose is actually only for charging and storage but I guess, it's also no bad idea for the battery in operation. At least it would let me sleep better (so in my projects I'm already tinkering with these bags).

[quicksilver79a]

Wow! That was a very nice tutorial. Congrats! I wished, I could handle a needle like you :)

[lemmonsinmyeyes]

where did you get that power supply for the lily pad? I cant find one online...

[fronkenpoop]

@mutorsound

Modulo... OMG. It's a by-product of a division operation that's comparatively intense from a raw processing perspective, and in one sense probably worse than using arrays in my opinion. Whatever happened to people thinking about efficiency as opposed to how few instructions in which something can be done. Ah well, as I said before, if it works and you're happy with it... Great.