[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Mykle's bike vest on Make

[dan p]

semaphore... definitly little flags on your ever safe bike helmet. Could
drive them with servos. Could even explain to the guy behind you that you
are infact a legal user of the road and could they kindly give you enough
space... might take a while and you would have to count on the fact that
they likely were not in the navy 100 years ago...



On 8/20/08, Mykle Hansen <mykle at mykle.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 20, 2008, at 11:35 PM, Jason Plumb wrote:
>
> What would happen if you put on this jersey, got on Don's bike with the
>> steampunk *rduino controlled lamps, mounted the *rduino LED flashy bucket in
>> back (where did that guy go anyway?), got warmed up on the clock-face
>> dynamometer and then rode around town with a whereis enabled iphone in your
>> bag.
>>
>
> you would explode and die!  but it would be awesome!
>
> speed-vest seems to be experiencing a delayed flash-in-pan
> reaction from our friend the Internets.  just in time for
> us to show it at some fancy thing in seattle next month!
>
> but frankly i am already desperate to work out version 2.0,
> with turn signals and brake lights, and wireless, and and and etc.
>
> the one thing i've never really managed to work out, and i'd
> love y'alls ideas, is how to do a version of this that would
> be really legible in the daytime.  at some point in the day,
> reflective surfaces are way brighter than lights, but all
> the reflective readerboards i've seen are huge, clunky, thick
> things.  mechanical by definition, it would seem.  or maybe not?
>
> -m-
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