Zesty Vesty

Weekly Log

Weekly log

Overview

We plan on making a vest that is covered in lights. The vest will be connected to a users phone, where the user can turn on the vest and alter the settings to that the lights flash and respond to their surroundings. We are incorporating sensors into the vest to that the lights will reflect the user’s surroundings.

Team Members

• Andre Cook
• Gillian Laming
• Kenneth McNelly
• TA: Chance Bayles
• Instructor: Jim Feher

Objectives

Our primary objective is to create a piece of wearable technology that can successfully connect with a users phone so that they can control the light. We plan on incorporating sensors into the vest so that it can respond to its surroundings. We hope our project will be both exciting and engaging. By incorporating sensors into the vest, it will allow the user to have an unexpected and personalized experience. We think that our demonstration at the end of the semester will be visually appealing and will draw in people.

Other Goals:

• learn how to use raspberry pi
• increase understanding of connectivity between multiple devices
• learn how to incorporate sensors into devices and analyze data

Challenges

We anticipate that we will face challenges connecting the vest to a users phone. We are looking into other projects that has a similar idea to try and figure out how to connect it. Additionally, the vest will need to be worn by the user, so we need to make sure that it is both comfortable and practical. This could be difficult given the lights and features we intend on adding to the vest.

Gantt Chart

Outline of anticipated accomplishment milestones.

Budget

Vest/Outfit Budget – $12.90 -vest link

Communication System budget – ~$20? -connecting / streaming commands from phone to pi, and data from pi to phone

Sensors Budget – ~$20-25? -sound sensor -motion / accelerometer sensor

Lights Budget: ~$135
-64x32 Flexible RGB LED Matrix Panel - 5mm Pitch $109.95
link

-connections to raspberry pi – $24.95
link

Auxiliary Budget: ~$20 -steel sewing wire for homemade light array

Raspberry Pi: $35 (provided by department)

Temperature Sensor (Kenneth is providing it)

Total: $150

Project Presentation

Slides are done, but running them by other team members before publishing them to wiki. Reach out to Gillian if you would like to view slides before September 28

Similar Pi Projects

These are some similar raspberry pi projects to ours. These will be helpful resources when we begin this part of our project next week.

• This project is for taking in temperature data and logging it for later viewing. Link
  

• Randomizes colors and location of blinking lights. Don't think will be super helpful, but may be a good starting point. Link
  

• Make lights dance to music using pi. Seems very helpful. Link
  

• Very similar pi project. Thorough tutorial of all of the necessary steps. Link
  

These projects are similar in that the lights are being controlled by a raspberry pi, but our project will incorporate additional sensors, and will be controllable from a user's phone.