Turn signal bike jacket

Leah Buechley used her LilyPad Arduino to make this soft circuit turn signal bicycle jacket, great for spring - Link.
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Posted by Becky Stern |
Mar 11, 2008 07:00 PM
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| Posted by: J on March 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM |
The Flickr pool is so annoying! Yes, thats great, but schematics? Information at all? How does she activate the turn signals? Pictures are useless without information! :S
| Posted by: Wim L on March 11, 2008 at 8:07 PM |
I was about to post the same thing, J. How is it controlled? What good is a flickr post without schematics or at least a description of the thing?
| Posted by: DF on March 11, 2008 at 10:34 PM |
No worse than a video of something someone built, doing something cool, with no supporting info. Actually, this is somewhat better, since we don't have to sit through two minutes of low-res flv to watch some lights blink.
| Posted by: jps on March 12, 2008 at 6:55 AM |
I was wondering when someone was going to get around to this!
I'm thinking of buying a motorcycle in the next year and was considering doing something similar to my jacket, possibly also using a GPS unit to monitor speed and cause separate LED's to flash slower/faster depending on how fast you're going.
| Posted by: BigD145 on March 12, 2008 at 11:34 AM |
This is no replacement to sticking your arm out. Really.
| Posted by: Nick on March 12, 2008 at 6:15 PM |
God lord this is nerdy! Turn signals?? Come on! Couldn't you put a better design on there? Like maybe "Disco Stu" or something. Wait, that's even nerdier... shit.
| Posted by: matt_c on March 14, 2008 at 8:29 AM |
Unless she rides completely upright (i.e. wrong, unless she's on a beach cruiser), I see little use here. No one will be able to see it.
| Posted by: Nataraj Hauser on March 14, 2008 at 11:19 AM |
This would work great for a lot of hybrid bicycles, and many styles of motorcycles. It seems it should be simple enough to have this be a Bluetooth application, with the sender on the motorcycle, built in to either the switch (which facilitates something similar on a bicycle), or in the bulb assembly.
To BigD145: no replacement to sticking your arm out? I see anything that keeps your hands on the controls while riding in traffic (MY streets are chock full of potholes and debris right now) is a great idea.
| Posted by: Nataraj on March 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM |
This would work great for a lot of hybrid bicycles, and many styles of motorcycles. It seems it should be simple enough to have this be a Bluetooth application, with the sender on the motorcycle, built in to either the switch (which facilitates something similar on a bicycle), or in the bulb assembly.
To BigD145: no replacement to sticking your arm out? I see anything that keeps your hands on the controls while riding in traffic (MY streets are chock full of potholes and debris right now) is a great idea.
| Posted by: Dobovedo on March 14, 2008 at 5:54 PM |
They need to be on her bum, not her back.
+1 to Nataraj on the arm sticking out rebuttal. Arms ain't real visible in the dark either.
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