Weather, time, compass …and more high viz sleeve for bikers/outdoor
Be seen and anticipate problems on the road:
I did 14,000 miles last year – rode up to Tiblisi and down to Athens, two trips to France / Pyrenees. I have information on board the bike – GPS, time, temperature, mpg, range… I have to click through the information button to get each piece of information. I would like to have something self powered and easy to read while I am riding, particularly in bad weather. It would be a challenge to make some thing rugged and useful to use on long journeys.
I do not necessarily need another GPS but a digital compass would be nice – also a bright LED addressable strip to show temperature, possibly barometer as well by changing colour and lighting up the LEDs along sleeve.
- Temperature – shown by leds along the arm of ther sleeve.
- Battery – powerbank NiMd
- Ruggedized oled
- Waterprood multicolour addressable LCD strip, display temp by no of lit LEDS and colour for barmteric pressure
- numeric for displays
- Realtime clock DS3231
- HMC 5883L digital compass
- Barometer
- Humidity
- MPU-6050 Gyro, accelerometer
Possible enclosure for components?
LED addressable strip for temp/air pressure display
learn plastic welding of seams
I2C 7 segment diplay for time
OLED display for compass and other information
Waterproof, addressable LEDs sealed into sleeve
Powerbank to power the unit.
On/off button inside waterproof cushion
This concept for the wearables project is not necessarily ‘art’ but it will involve some opportunity to design and make a rugged outdoor, easy to read sleeve one can wear outdoors – walking cycling, motorcycling. As a keen motorcyclist, I already have a multi-function sensor on the bike, but it is hard to read in bad weather and fiddly to operate, also it can only display one piece of information at a time. This project will combine as many sensors as I can possibly include in the order as shown above.
I will experiment with waterproofing techniques, aim to seal in an oled screen and numeric leds. All will be connected via I2C bus, powered by a decent power bank. A timer will shut the unit down to save power, pressing a button inside waterproof will wake the device up or shut it down. I will use a lilypad or similar to control sensors.
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Investigate friction welding to waterproof the items in pockets inside the sleeve.
Use of silicone and polycarbonate enclosure to protect OLED inside bespoke 3D printed case.
References: (more to be added)