I’ve been eyeing adafruit’s wearable hardware components for a while now, especially since my company offered support to anyone who’d bring more hardware knowhow to the table \o/

Yesterday, I talked to my mother, the topic somehow migrated to this hardware stuff, and the next thing we knew, we had specified my first project: the School Scarf.

The basic idea is a scarf with LEDs which change colors when the classroom is too loud.

I expanded this with the requirement that it should be possible to set the „normal“ color of the LEDs to a particular value, thus for example matching it to the rest of the outfit.

Specs

• scarf with colorchanging LEDs
• noise sensor, triggers color change to „alarm color“ if noise exceeds a certain value
• color sensor, triggers color change to „normal color“
• microcontroller

Basically, the scarf will be a mashup between the Chameleon Scarf and the LED Ampli-Tie

Shopping list

• Gemma starter pack
• 20 NeoPixels
• Flora colorsensor
• Mikrophone
• Haberdashery 🙂

I’ll keep you up to date!

Tagged: flora, gemma, hardware, schoolscarf, wearables