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Subscribers—read this article now in your digital edition!Make a lightweight night-cycling vest that displays your current speed in glowing, 7-inch-tall numbers easily visible to cars.
By Mykle Hansen
Photos by Mykle Hansen, Ed Troxell, Noah Webb
Illustrations by Timmy Kucynda
Code, templates and tutorials for the Speed Vest Project
Step 1. Atomic Salad's excellent ProtoShield assembly tutorial
Step 2. Schematics
- speed-vest-sch.png
- Cadsoft Eagle vest.sch
- Arduino input/output and Triac sketches and schematics kmagri_schematic_sketch.tif
Step 3c. EL Wire test code: Test_EL_Digits.pde
Step 4b. Digit template stacked_numbers_template.pdf
Step 5a. Finished project code speedo_4.pde
More Resources
Video of the Speed Vest in action
Mikey Sklar's EL wire project article - this is where I learned how to drive EL wire with a microcontroller
Links
- Speed Vest project
- Packing tape sculpture technique
- Arduino
- Sew-on reflective letters
- 3M Scotchlite Iron-On
- Light ’n Wire productions
- CooLight
- Digi-Key
- SparkFun Electronics
- Maker Shed
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