Swarming LEDs for LED Fun

This project can be be applied to many projects. Our prototype has been in scarves. These can also go in all sorts of other places:

• Wearables such as scarves and hats.
• Bike safety helmet.
• Bike lights.

Why these? What's the swarm?

The thing that makes this project unique is the swarm. We're working to establish a way for multiple projects to communicate so that you can sync up animations with friends or even strangers.

Cheap simple hardware that can be put together in a robust and ad-hoc way to keep you safe for nights of partying, or bicycling. Keep your friends all in a group with a synchronized mobile light show.

Materials / Shopping List

These are some of the materials we've used to build our own. You can pretty much bank on them workin for your project.

• portable battery packs, not a bad idea to have two. These are small enough to fit inside of a fuzzy scarf, and they don't turn off on you. You can get a few hours out of one of these... Depends on the animation you run.
• fabric
• arduino nanos
• led strips
• usb cables
• rotary encoder
• wire

Contributing

Getting Involved

If you'd like to submit a bug, go ahead and use the issue tracker.

If you'd like to make submit a feature or a fix.

• Open an issue to get buy in.
• Fork the repo.
• Make your changes.
• Submit a pull request.

Troubleshooting

Things you might be missing.

• edit using VSCode with PlatformIO plugin
• OpenOCD some USB stuff brew install openocd (or else dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/libftdi/lib/libftdi1.2.dylib)