Blinky headgear

posted Feb 21st 2011 7:06am by
filed under: led hacks

[Everett Tom] added some blinking LEDs to his visor while honing his PCB design skills at the same time. He started with the TI eZ430-F2013 for prototyping the blinking circuit along with its mode toggle buttons. Once this was worked out he used BatchPCB (a low-cost professional board fab option) to manufacture a board. The final design hosts an MSP430 F2013 microcontroller as well as the voltage regulator circuit that draws power from the 9V battery that hides inside the head band next to the board.

You guessed it, video after the break.

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4 Responses to Blinky headgear

  • sqnewton says:
    February 21, 2011 at 8:22 am

    What’s that???

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  • rasz says:
    February 21, 2011 at 10:14 am

    its a Pastiche of and old Adruino to blink a led design!

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  • jeditalian says:
    February 21, 2011 at 10:47 am

    that would get so annoying. i would stick the LED’s where the bill blocks the blink

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  • everett_tom says:
    February 21, 2011 at 10:12 pm

    Actually the way it’s mounted, the LEDs are on top of the visor, you can’t see them when your wearing it.

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