Police Shoes

The nostalgia of my childhood led me to the idea of these Light-Up Skecher inspired "Police Shoes". The idea of these shoes is that they change between the police colors of blue and red whenever there is motion. I am more than excited to share this project with all of you!

For this project you will need a shoe, a battery pack with batteries, Circuit Playground Bluefruit, LED Light Strip, and a cable that plugs into the Circuit Playground Bluefruit.

The first thing you want to do is to connect your Circuit Playground Bluefruit to your computer using a cable. This is to ensure that you can insert your code onto the Circuit Playground Bluefruit which will control your LED lightstrip later. You may need to use a USB converter to connect to your computer.

The next thing you want to do is to download the attached file with all the code. This code runs all the commands for the LED lights. Make sure that you move this file onto the attached CPB. In other words, copy/cut the code.py file and paste onto an external drive called "CIRCUITPY (D:)" , replace the previous "code.py" file if necessary.

When attaching the LED light strip, make sure that the red cable connects to the "VOUT" port, the white cable connects to the "A1" port, and the black cable connects to the "GND" port as shown in the image. You also need to detach the cable the connects the CPB to the computer.

Make sure that the battery pack contains 3 AAA batteries and is switched to "off". Then attach the battery pack to the CPB.

Attach the battery pack onto the "tongue" of the shoe and tape the CPB onto the tip of the shoe. Then, wrap the LED light strip around the shoe and tape them to the shoe to ensure that they stick to the shoe. Try to do this step as shown in the image above.

All you have to do now is put on the shoe and turn the battery pack to "on". The shoe should light up and change from red to blue when in motion as seen in the video that I've attached to this step. Enjoy!