THIS IS A "WORK IN PROGRESS" POST. I am currently working on this project and taking notes here. Feel free to read along, but please excuse any incomplete thoughts or random links as I am using it as a personal reference. Stay tuned for more! I'm going as Lady Gaga...

A spectacle of bike lights.  My goal is to make a music responsive LED NeoPixel light display for my bike. I'm a part of a group of bicycle enthusiasts in downtown Jersey City (Yeah BikeJC!) and we go on light-up night time bike rides in the summer with hundreds of...

Courses about shoe/sneaker design from the University of Oregon

Microcontrollers Arduino MKR WiFi 1010 It connects easily to other Arduino products and is configurable using Arduino software — and you don’t need to be a network expert. This is the newest version of the MKR 1000 WIFI, but with an ESP32 module on board made by U-BLOX. Arduino Nano...

Tap Sensor - V2 Thicker traces, better wire placement, better machine settings for copper tape. Process for copper traces transfer process. I didn't have contact paper so I used tape. I would recommend getting some contact paper. :p Soldering the wires: Assembling the pieces: Acrylic Copper traces Velostat Copper Traces...

Prototyping Process - The Shoe Prototyping Plan for the Tap Sensors: Create Matrix Sensor in the shape of a tap Test with existing code from Matrix/Processing Example Create a Processing sketch mapped to the sensor’s visual appearance to prove the sensor is showing zones of impact on the tap Define...

Brainstorm: Defining Tap Movements Toe Tap Toe Scrape Tip Toe Heel Drop Heel Dig Mute  What will I need to differentiate between these? How will I handle the cut off?  Just like a cymbal, a tap rings out if it is left in the air after a hit. If the...

Digital Tap Shoes Midi Controller Tap Shoes designed specifically for tap dancers. Why? Tap dancing is a rhythmic and artistic augmentation to music through dance.  This project is to expand and redefine the capabilities of Tap Dance for creating and supplementing music. What is it? A system to create multi-instrument...

History of Electronic Tap Dance Projects This post is a work in progress - It's a collection of all the Digital Tap Dance Projects that I know about. Do you know of one that isn't listed? Please tell me about it. My first inspiration: "Tap" I was probably about 12...