Hoodlight

Add personal lighting to any hoodie for style and optional anonymity.

Chris Hamilton

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This is a project to demo usage of Flex Modules to create a simple personal lighting accent and optionally prevent facial recognition. This project will utilize the USB BiPower OTG Flex Module, the 3dB BLE Flex Module, and 1 or 2 LED light strips. The whole system minus USB Power Bank and USB cable will be encased in IP67 tubing.

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Any software related will be released under BSD or MIT license. SAAS or cloud based software will be AGPL.

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1 × 3dB BLE Flex Module
1 × USB BiPower OTG
1 × 770nm IR LED 1m strip
1 × APA102C LED 1m strip
1 × LED driver board

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Finding near IR LEDs is difficult
Chris Hamilton • 08/17/2015 at 18:06 • 2 comments

We have tested a few very expensive LEDs, but nothing that comes in a strip so far emits only near IR. Usually they are quite red too.

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davedarko wrote 08/12/2015 at 19:56

I still want to see this ;)

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Chris Hamilton wrote 08/12/2015 at 20:51

So do I :). We need to find a near IR strip that doesn't also emit lower wavelengths too and a better power supply for it as well.

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