Alex Glow
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glowHacker LED Bike Lights

Turn your bicycle into a brilliant display of safety-enhancing splendor!

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glowHacker LED Bike Lights

Things used in this project

Hardware components

LightBlue Bean
Punch Through LightBlue Bean
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NPN Transistors
Up to 3, for your different colors. Make sure they can handle 12V / 2000mA.
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9V battery (generic)
9V battery (generic)
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9V battery connector
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Waterproof 5050 RGB LED strip
Make sure they're waterproof! The ones we used are non-addressable, so they're fairly cheap, $15-20 per 5-meter roll.
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4-strand hookup wire
Most convenient for connecting strips of LEDs.
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Toggle switch
Optional!
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Software apps and online services

Johnny-Five
Johnny-Five

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Code

Github

Credits

Alex Glow

Alex Glow

145 projects • 1568 followers
The Hackster team's resident Hardware Nerd. I love robots, music, EEG, wearables, and languages. FIRST Robotics kid.

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