  Light Race Jackets 
--include video-- These matching jackets were constructed in a rush over three or four days, working late into the night. Each jacket had grommets hammered into the arms and across the back. LEDs were sewn onto strips of felt which were placed beneath the holes and tacked into place. Ribbon cable runs from the LEDs to each of the pockets, where the electronics are housed. A single Arduino microcontroller controls the light pattern, sending signals across ribbon cable to the other pocket. The jackets have two settings: an all-on green state which changes, at the push of a button, to an all-red statement with a single, "chasing" green light. Our original idea, that we did not have time to implement, was to connect each jacket to a set of gloves with four conductive points in order to communicate serially between the outfits, allowing the "chase" pattern to jump from one jacket to the other. |
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