Power Laces- the Auto lacing shoe – awesome.

Why wait until 2015? Inspired by ‘Back to The Future II’, this project is less ‘Practical’ than ‘Proof of Concept’, but hopefully it’ll tide you over until Nike comes out with something more polished. This was also the first time I worked with an Arduino microcontroller, and I wanted to get some experience with the little guy. Operation is quite simple- step into the shoe and a force sensor reads the pressure of your foot and activates two servo motors, which apply tension to the laces, tightening the shoe. A touch switch reverses the servos. Due to budget constraints, I only modified one shoe. Where did I put that darn sports almanac?!

Today there were a lot of people tweeting about today being the “date” on the Back to the Future time machine that was “25 years in the future” – it was not, but that didn’t stop all those re-tweets. Spend more time making, the best way to predict what is going to happen in the future is to make it

Made with a Motorshield!