Bluetooth Totebag With Led Lights

by snall in Circuits > Art

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Bluetooth Totebag With Led Lights

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https://github.com/a-snall/bluetooth-totebag-with-leds here is the code.

This code runs 4 different animations:

  1. lights + iPhone "ping" message sound (" lot of messages gotta go")
  2. pulse lights
  3. rainbow lights
  4. chase + iPhone ringtone ( "someone's calling gotta go")

You can easily tweak this code and change the animation running, the colours, and the audio playing... all customisable! See the videos of what I used. + If you want to play louder, you can easily change the audioOutput in the code and attaching speaker to the cpb, here is clear instructions to do that (https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-circuit-playground-bluefruit/circuitpython-audio-out).

Check out the videos of what animations I used. I didn't use the speaker because I wanted to have that iPhone message "ping" to be there, sounding annoyingly busy, as a joke to my roommates.


DOWNLOAD the bluetooth app from App Store https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/bluefruit-connect/id1494760882?mt=12


I pressed the Boston College logo on one side and sewed the "BC" led lights on the other side. I haven't seen this kind of "logo tote bag" in the BC bookstore, so that's why I chose this logo. I really like the "university logo tote bags" since you can use them everywhere (more common in Europe, not a big thing in US). I also lost one of my tote bags, which I had got from the Lisbon Catolica University where I did a BC summer abroad, to BC laundry so I needed a replacement.


Supplies

Totebag

  • sewing machine & supplies
  • fabric

Leds

  • led lights which capability of changing colour ( gnd, info, vout)
  • wires
  • soldering supplies
  • 1 Adafruit circuitpython playground
  • 3 alligator wires
  • wire cutters
  • battery pack and 3 batteries (AAA)

Vinyl cutted logo

  • vinyl material of choice
  • vinyl cutting machine
  • knives, tweezers and scissors
  • hot press machine
  • Adobe illustrator

Soldering

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Cut pieces of length of your choice, have 3 wires for each edge you want to make. The information runs in only one direction with the leds that I used, so make sure you have them in right order. Solder. Make sure that one goes to one, otherwise they don't work.


Sew the Bag

The world's easiest-to-make tote bag! - YouTubeYouTubehttps://www.youtube.com › No Trace

  • here is an easy video to follow how to make it but you can do anything you want
  • leave 1-2 sides open at this point

Vinyl Cutting

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  • choose a photo(B&W) of your choice and tweet it in the illustrator to add text and so on.
  • use the vinyl cutter to cut the piece
  • weed the logo
  • use the hot press to press it into the fabric, make sure you use correct setting for the material you are using
  • I used this fuzzy material; Temp 320 F and time 20s


Sew the Led Lights to the Bag

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  • I glued the leds to another fabric that I then sewed to the bag so that only the alligator clips that I soldered to the leds are out a little
  • I sewed this tiny "bag" inside the bag to hold the electronics on the side, so that they are not just hanging on the bottom of the bag

Code

  • use cpb to code the leds to work the way you want and add some sound if you want