Bluetooth Totebag With Led Lights

https://github.com/a-snall/bluetooth-totebag-with-leds here is the code.

This code runs 4 different animations:

1. lights + iPhone "ping" message sound (" lot of messages gotta go")
2. pulse lights
3. rainbow lights
4. chase + iPhone ringtone ( "someone's calling gotta go")

You can easily tweak this code and change the animation running, the colours, and the audio playing... all customisable! See the videos of what I used. + If you want to play louder, you can easily change the audioOutput in the code and attaching speaker to the cpb, here is clear instructions to do that (https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-circuit-playground-bluefruit/circuitpython-audio-out).

Check out the videos of what animations I used. I didn't use the speaker because I wanted to have that iPhone message "ping" to be there, sounding annoyingly busy, as a joke to my roommates.

DOWNLOAD the bluetooth app from App Store https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/bluefruit-connect/id1494760882?mt=12

I pressed the Boston College logo on one side and sewed the "BC" led lights on the other side. I haven't seen this kind of "logo tote bag" in the BC bookstore, so that's why I chose this logo. I really like the "university logo tote bags" since you can use them everywhere (more common in Europe, not a big thing in US). I also lost one of my tote bags, which I had got from the Lisbon Catolica University where I did a BC summer abroad, to BC laundry so I needed a replacement.

Supplies

Totebag

• sewing machine & supplies
• fabric

Leds

• led lights which capability of changing colour ( gnd, info, vout)
• wires
• soldering supplies
• 1 Adafruit circuitpython playground
• 3 alligator wires
• wire cutters
• battery pack and 3 batteries (AAA)

Vinyl cutted logo

• vinyl material of choice
• vinyl cutting machine
• knives, tweezers and scissors
• hot press machine
• Adobe illustrator

Step 1: Soldering

Cut pieces of length of your choice, have 3 wires for each edge you want to make. The information runs in only one direction with the leds that I used, so make sure you have them in right order. Solder. Make sure that one goes to one, otherwise they don't work.

Step 2: Sew the Bag

The world's easiest-to-make tote bag! - YouTubeYouTubehttps://www.youtube.com › No Trace

• here is an easy video to follow how to make it but you can do anything you want
• leave 1-2 sides open at this point

Step 3: Vinyl Cutting

• choose a photo(B&W) of your choice and tweet it in the illustrator to add text and so on.
• use the vinyl cutter to cut the piece
• weed the logo
• use the hot press to press it into the fabric, make sure you use correct setting for the material you are using
• I used this fuzzy material; Temp 320 F and time 20s

Step 4: Sew the Led Lights to the Bag

• I glued the leds to another fabric that I then sewed to the bag so that only the alligator clips that I soldered to the leds are out a little
• I sewed this tiny "bag" inside the bag to hold the electronics on the side, so that they are not just hanging on the bottom of the bag
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Step 5: Code

• use cpb to code the leds to work the way you want and add some sound if you want