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CycleSafe

Team Members: Andrew and Emma 

What We’re Going To Do: We’re developing a cycling jacket that incorporates sensors and LEDs as brake lights and turn signals to eliminate the need for hand signals. Additional features may include pressure sensors to contact emergency services in case of an impact, and vibrators to provide directions. 

Concept Art:

  

Inspiration: We felt that hand signals made by cyclists are not always clear or visible to drivers. Wearing this jacket could greatly improve the safety of cyclists. 

Materials and Costs:

Fabric, Zippers, Velcro, Elastic, Seam Tape. Estimated cost: $90 

LEDs, Accelerometer, Battery, Arduino. Estimated cost: $150 

Steps/Timeline: We just ordered sample fabrics last week so we’re hoping they come in soon and will have a final fabric picked and ordered by next week. The technology has also been ordered. We hope to have a final muslin sample of the jacket completed by November 18th. The remaining time will be dedicated to completing the final jacket and testing.

Backup/Fallback: We are hoping to allow ourselves enough time for troubleshooting so that we will not need a backup/fallback plan. If this doesn’t happen to work we will create something less intensive than a full jacket and something that would be more like encased wire that you can put on over whatever you’re wearing (similar to what Jess suggested last week). 

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Update

This week we further developed the muslin (rough draft of the jacket). It’s pretty much ready for testing with the electronics which we are planning to do tomorrow night. We have the accelerometer hooked up to the Arduino and providing somewhat consistent results. We are going to continue to work with the accelerometer data to get the functionality we need. Some challenges we ran into included redeveloping the original pattern so that the electronic elements will fit in. For this coming week we’re planning on testing electronics, getting the lights hooked up, finishing the jacket, and making our poster.

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11/23-Lights up Dress Weekly post

I was working on the “Shift Register” again. I was founding how many leds can be light up with one shift register because last week when I was working with the shift register, all the 8 leds aren’t turned on and when the leds truned on the power wasn’t equal between all the leds. Same as last week, I used the borad to connect the shift register, 8 leds together and  the  lilly pad. I wasn’t run the program because I just wanted to know  how many leds can be light up equally with one shift register. So, I just connected to the computer for the power. The problem I had this week was that I might not able to make the pattern that I want to make because I cannot really control the leds individually.  But, I finally figured out how to trun on all the leds equally. I think I am little bit behind on my sechedule becauseI think dealing with the shift register and accelerometer will take more time than I thought. My plan for next week is that I want to finish programming the shift register and start with the accelerometer.

 

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Gaming Gloves 11/30

Hey guys!

Things finally start to work for our side this week. We finally received the Bluetooth module. We had to buy another one because we didn’t receive the first order. Our fabric was also delivered this week so we could start to saw the tip of the fingers for the gloves. Because of all this problems with deliveries the project is late on the schedule, but since the software is something pretty simple to develop it will be easy to get things under schedule again.

Below are some pictures of our work this week.
Until next week!

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The tip of the fingers made with a really thin neoprene.

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The Bluetooth module.

 

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Cycling Jacket Update

Sorry this is late! Last week’s updates:

Andrew- This week I worked with the electronics to help make sense of the accelerometer data. We found that the pro mini would not work for our project so I ordered new electronics that I look forward to hooking up on Tuesday.

Emma- This week I continues to work on the muslin and ordered the final fabrics. I wanted to order two tones of fabric, a lighter gray and a charcoal. I got a call from the woman packing my order a couple days later telling me that they were out of one of the grays so I chose a red instead. Challenges I ran into include basic draping/sizing challenges since I haven’t done much of it in the past.

The accelerometer issues and slow draping set us back a little bit but we plan on catching up next week.

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Emma and Andrew- Jacket Update

Emma- The materials we ordered finally came in this week! We received a ton of fabric samples to choose from and are planning to make a final decision on Tuesday. We also began creating a muslin of the jacket (a test garment made out of inexpensive fabric). This has been a little challenging and time consuming because I don’t have a ton of experience with draping, let alone menswear, but I feel confident that I will make a lot of progress on it in this upcoming week. As long as I make that kind of progress this week, we should be on schedule!

Andrew- I’ve continued to have a bit of trouble prototyping the circuit on the breadboard, so this week I soldered the components to a circuit board, and look forward to testing it further next week.

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CycleSafe, Projects, Uncategorized

CycleSafe

Team Members: Andrew and Emma

What We’re Going To Do: We’re developing a cycling jacket that incorporates sensors and LEDs as brake lights and turn signals to eliminate the need for hand signals. Additional features may include pressure sensors to contact emergency services in case of an impact, and vibrators to provide directions.

  Inspiration: We felt that hand signals made by cyclists are not always clear or visible to drivers. Wearing this jacket could greatly improve the safety of cyclists.

Materials and Costs:

Fabric, Zippers, Velcro, Elastic, Seam Tape. Estimated cost: $90

LEDs, Accelerometer, Battery, Arduino. Estimated cost: $150

Steps/Timeline: We just ordered sample fabrics last week so we’re hoping they come in soon and will have a final fabric picked and ordered by next week. The technology has also been ordered. We hope to have a final muslin sample of the jacket completed by November 18th. The remaining time will be dedicated to completing the final jacket and testing.

Backup/Fallback: We are hoping to allow ourselves enough time for troubleshooting so that we will not need a backup/fallback plan. If this doesn’t happen to work we will create something less intensive than a full jacket and something that would be more like encased wire that you can put on over whatever you’re wearing (similar to what Jess suggested last week).

Concept Art:

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