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Step 7Mount the shoes! finished!
This is a step which I really didn't how I was going to do.
Basically, you want the toe to be attached, but not the heel, otherwise you will find it hard to walk. I ended up just cutting slits in the top of the shoes and using screws.
The way I did it was:
1. line up shoes onto toe pillars and heel pillars
2. ensure the holes you are about to drill won't hit the existing screws which hold the toe pillars to the polycarbonate
3. scalpel a 1.5cm slit in the top of the shoe
4. drill a 3mm hole through the slit, through the base of the shoe, through the polycarb and into the wood
5. remove shoe. enlarge the hole in the polycarbonate, but not the wood, so that your self tapping screw won't shatter the polycarbonate as it goes through
6. replace shoe, line everything up and just put you screw through the slit and screw it down. The screw head will eventually just go through the slit, and sink nicely into the base of the shoe. Use a countersink screw.
7. a little touch up paint on the slits.
That's it you are done!
So put the battery box in your trouser pocket, bring the leads down each trouser leg, and connect up!! Have fun!
======NOTES======
You will get a lot of attention from people, people will dance around you on the dance floor, and you will feel a bit shallow, but you love it!
The best chat up line possible is to ask someone to join you on your dance floor so they stand/dance on your tiles, which puts them basically on top of you. Enjoy! Do not use these shoes for evil!
Obviously multicolour lights would be amazing. But if I would make one simple change though, I would add a simple flasher circuit which is activated by switch. This is so that when you are not lifting your feet up, e.g. standing in one place dancing, the lights would flash, making things look more interesting. You can obviously flash the lights by fiddling with the connection on the battery box, but this makes it look like you are playing with yourself through your trouser pocket.
Outdoor/variable surfaces/festivals
In this form, these shoes are only suitable for hard, even floors. For a festival, I would rebuild them using a bottle crate (plastic crate designed to hold many bottles) underneath. I would put the pressure sensor in the shoe rather than on the ground.
Basically, you want the toe to be attached, but not the heel, otherwise you will find it hard to walk. I ended up just cutting slits in the top of the shoes and using screws.
The way I did it was:
1. line up shoes onto toe pillars and heel pillars
2. ensure the holes you are about to drill won't hit the existing screws which hold the toe pillars to the polycarbonate
3. scalpel a 1.5cm slit in the top of the shoe
4. drill a 3mm hole through the slit, through the base of the shoe, through the polycarb and into the wood
5. remove shoe. enlarge the hole in the polycarbonate, but not the wood, so that your self tapping screw won't shatter the polycarbonate as it goes through
6. replace shoe, line everything up and just put you screw through the slit and screw it down. The screw head will eventually just go through the slit, and sink nicely into the base of the shoe. Use a countersink screw.
7. a little touch up paint on the slits.
That's it you are done!
So put the battery box in your trouser pocket, bring the leads down each trouser leg, and connect up!! Have fun!
======NOTES======
You will get a lot of attention from people, people will dance around you on the dance floor, and you will feel a bit shallow, but you love it!
The best chat up line possible is to ask someone to join you on your dance floor so they stand/dance on your tiles, which puts them basically on top of you. Enjoy! Do not use these shoes for evil!
Obviously multicolour lights would be amazing. But if I would make one simple change though, I would add a simple flasher circuit which is activated by switch. This is so that when you are not lifting your feet up, e.g. standing in one place dancing, the lights would flash, making things look more interesting. You can obviously flash the lights by fiddling with the connection on the battery box, but this makes it look like you are playing with yourself through your trouser pocket.
Outdoor/variable surfaces/festivals
In this form, these shoes are only suitable for hard, even floors. For a festival, I would rebuild them using a bottle crate (plastic crate designed to hold many bottles) underneath. I would put the pressure sensor in the shoe rather than on the ground.
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