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Interactive Jacket For Cyclists: Instructables

Interactive Jacket for Cyclists is a project where we turn an ordinary jacket into a wonderful interactive jacket which can display turn signals on the back. These turn signals (LEDS) can be activated by using hand gestures (waving your hand). Also it features front and back LEDs for increased visibility for the cyclist.

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Interactive Jacket For Cyclists: Instructables

Interactive Jacket for Cyclists is a project where we turn an ordinary jacket into a wonderful interactive jacket which can display turn signals on the back. These turn signals (LEDS) can be activated by using hand gestures (waving your hand). Also it features front and back LEDs for increased visibility for the cyclist.

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Guillermo Bianchini
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Interactive Jacket for Cyclists

by mujtabachang

Interactive Jacket for Cyclists is a project where we cyclist.


turn an ordinary jacket into a wonderful interactive
jacket which can display turn signals on the back. In this Instructable, we will show you how we made it,
These turn signals (LEDS) can be activated by using step by step and how can you replicate it to make
hand gestures (waving your hand). Also it features your own jacket.
front and back LEDs for increased visibility for the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-79zBHkLqU

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Step 1: Stuff Needed

Before we do anythings, lets make a list of things we would need to make this jacket.

Images are listed in the order of the list

A Jacket (Obviously. Any jacket would do)


Arduino Uno (or Lilypad)
Two 9V Batteries (or one 9V battery and one Lilypad battery if using lilypad)
Two Accelerometers (if possible, two identical accelerometers are required. However we did not
had two identical ones, so we used Sparkfun IMU 9DOF Sensor Stick and Adafruit ADXL335)
Red LEDs for back lights
Yellow LEDs for turn signal lights
White LEDs for front lights
Perfboard
Dozen 1k ohm resistors
9V battery connectors
10k ohm potentiometer
Four 2N2222 transistors
Set of wires, very long ones
Screw headers for connecting the wires to the perfboard
SPDT Maniture Switch (main on/off switch)
A box to contain Arduino and the batteries inside the jacket. We used Arduino Sidekick Basic Kit's
green box

You can also buy LED strips instead of individual LEDs.

Tools Needed

Hot glue gun (or sewing kit)


Soldering Iron
Shrink tubes
Sticky notes (for labeling the wires)

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Step 2: Design

The layout image shows the placement of the lights in effectively.


the jacket, as well as the placement of the
accelerometers near the cuffs. You can place the There are two turn signals LED groups for left and
main board (Arduino and batteries) anywhere you right turns, which are yellow LEDs. There is a single
want, let it be underneath the jacket. group of red LEDs for brake/back in red color and
single group of white LEDs in white color for
The reason for placing the accelerometers near the increased visibility.
cuffs of the jacket is that, it needs to be near the
hands in order for it to detect the hand gestures

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Step 3: Circuit design and programming

To make this jacket, we need a circuit. The circuit schematic diagram (added figure) shows how different
components are connected. You can make the circuit on a breadboard to test it out first (figure is added). And then
solder it to the perfboard which can be used as an Arduino shield (Arduino addon, see the pictures). But the wires
to & from the accelerometers should be long enough to reach to jacket's cuffs, since we need to install the
accelerometers at the cuff (see previous step).

Programming the Arduino

Once you are happy with your the circuit, you need to program the Arduino. The program for the Arduino is given
in the files section. The program requires two additional libraries

1. SimpleTimer
2. SparkFun LSM9DS1

Install the libraries first into the Arduino. Then download the Interactive_Jacket.zip file and open with Arduino to
program it.

Early Testing

You can test the working of the circuit by placing the accelerometers on your cuff (see figure) and try waving it. If
the gesture is not detected, try changing the potientiometer to change the sensitivity.

LED circuits

We soldered the LEDs in series and parallel combination so that each LED can get 1.5 volts, along with 220 ohm
resistors to limit the current.. We are running the LEDs from 9V batteries. But we would suggest replacing the
LEDs with LED strips for simplicity.

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Step 4: Assembling

Attaching the Accelerometers Modules routed to the main board (Arduino) and fixed to the
jacket using hot glue, you can also sew it if you want
The assembly of the jacket starts with attaching the to. See the figures.
accelerometers to the inside of the cuff. The modules
can be added using hot glue or sewing. The figure Main Board
shows the how the modules are attached to the inside
of the cuff along with wires. Please label the The main board comprises of Arduino, the circuit and
signals/power wires with sticky tape and write the the batteries enclosed in a container. We used
wire names. Sidekick Basic Kit as a container :P

Attaching the LED circuits Attaching the Switch and Potentiometer

The groups of LEDs are made using perfboard and You can attach the switch (on/off) and potentiometer
can be attached using hot glue. You can see in the to the green box. But for that we need to make holes
figures how each perfboard with LEDs are attached to for the wires to pass through. We used soldering iron
the jacket. You have to make a hole for the wires to to make holes into the green box, later we hot glued
pass through. the switch and potentiometer. See the figures

LED wires Basically you are done with the assembly step.

The wires (LED ones and accelerometer ones) are

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Step 5: Testing it out!

So you have reached till this step. Everything should Well you can do a lot of improvements to this jacket,
be working for now. Your jacket should be complete such as maybe detect the deacceleration and turn on
by now the back LEDs accordingly, acting as a brake lights.
Or perhaps make this out of Lilypad and conductive
Try changing the potentiometer to change the thread and make it washable.
threshold value which will make the hand gesture
detection more sensitive. Good luck!

What's more?

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