A Snake/lizard Arm Night Light Wristband

Hello all!

This is my technological enhancement I added onto my body. While it isn't all the way not connected to a computer, it could be easily made to be connected to one, or not connected at all just by preference. Here I made mine into a chameleon or snake, whichever one you want to see. This is a pretty simple process and only takes a couple of steps. See if you can follow along!

The supplies needed are listed below:

• 8 220 Ohm Resistors
• 8 LED lights of your choice (I personally did two of each: yellow, red, green, and blue)
• 1 touch sensor
• 1 plastic bag
• Sharpie markers
• Jumper wires/breadboard wires both female and male
• Have about 15 of these just in case
• 1 breadboard
• 1 Uno Arduino
• 1 Uno Arduino connector (wire to connect to computer)

I began exploring what others had done to connect their touch sensor to the led light. I followed the Arduino tutorials carefully and began connecting all the wires to where they had belonged. This is the link I followed: Arduino - Touch Sensor | Arduino Tutorial (arduinogetstarted.com). I followed the instructions based off of the example it gave me within the picture. I used other pictures as well to help me hook up the LEDs to the touch sensor. The two photos above demonstrate where each thing goes on the breadboard. I used only 8 LEDs for my project, but you could use however many you want to.

Once I was finished putting the wires in the correct space, I made my own coding following a YouTube tutorial as well as using the coding from the website in "step one". Once I made sure all my LEDs were correctly connected to the touch sensor, I started coding in my Arduino codes. You can find the coding for it within the pictures. Starting with defining the constants and ending with the void loop, the instructions can be followed very easily.

Once I began making sure all the lights were set up and everything was good and ready to go, I started to decorate my breadboard to have it be attached to my arm as a wristband. I used cardboard for the touch sensor to be placed as well as placed my Arduino board on top of the breadboard. I placed tape on top of the breadboard and on the bottom of the Arduino uno board to ensure it would stay in place. Once finished, I realized that some of the wires were in the way, and use the table tie you would find on bread packages to twist up the wires together. I used the cardboard as well to be a holder on my arm so I could put my arm through the hole as you can see in the pictures.

Once everything was ready, I took a random plastic bag (Walmart bag for mine) and started covering the wires and the entire breadboard so nothing could be seen. I did it in such a way that it had turned into a snake/lizard. So, to make the nightlight wristband look better, I decided to take my sharpie markers and decorate the heck out of it. I made it into some kind of animal and it ended up looking pretty decent.

I hope you all had fun in either participating and following along to my instructions or here just to see my project and its progression. Thank you all and have a great day!