The Crash Helmet is a bike helmet that marks out locations where people have been killed while cycling to the rest of the Pittsburgh community. The helmet currently uses the location of the recent death of cyclist Susan Hicks near Forbes and Bellefield.
The Crash Helmet uses a LightBlue Bean to activate a high-wattage LED that is powered by a lithium polymer battery. The LightBlue Bean connects to an iPhone over Bluetooth, and when the iPhone comes within 20 meters of a crash site, the LED on the helmet lights up.
A previous version of the project can be found here.
Below is a Fritzing Diagram of our electronics
A video of the project in action is below:
Vimeo / Varun Gupta – via Iframely
A photo of a person(Craig) wearing the helmet is also below
]]>The Crash Helmet is a bike helmet that marks out locations where people have been killed while cycling in Pittsburgh to the biker wearing the helmet and to the rest of the community. The helmet currently uses the location of the recent death of cyclist Susan Hicks near Forbes and Bellefield.
The Crash Helmet uses a LightBlue Bean to power four red LEDs. The LightBlue Bean connects to an iPhone over Bluetooth, and when the iPhone comes within 20 meters of a crash site, the LEDs on the helmet go dark. Additionally, the LightBlue Bean is connected to a vibrational motor in the front of the helmet, to signal the crash locations to the biker.
Below is a closeup of the Light blue bean and LEDs and the Vibration motor on the inside of the helmet.
Below is the Crash helmet in action at the site of the crash.
YouTube / Varun Gupta – via Iframely
Below is a fritzing diagram of the circuit.
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The waypoint is a navigational glove that can be used to point to a location. It currently points north but will eventually always point to a certain location. It’s not currently presented as a glove, but the compass will be at the base of the pointer finger and the lights will be on the finger itself. In the above video, more lights turn on as the compass points closer to north. Eventually, the location will be input-able and a GPS will be used to navigate to the location in addition to the compass. We wanted to do this as it is a statement about the communicative power of the hand and the interest we have in glove based wearables.
By Varun Gupta, Kevin Apolo, Yousuf Soliman
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