Drift Visualizer

An IoT solution to hack drifting. Gameification built around proximity sensors. Leaderboards by location. Drift into the Future!

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Esquilo Air

Grove Shield with LCD RGB Display

VERRADO ELECTRIC DRIFT TRIKE

Story

Had a great time this weekend at #HardwareWeekend @kickstarter

credit yangbo du on photo storify.com/yangbodu/hardwarews

Albert Schweitzer, Javair Ratliff and Lex Dreitser took first place and drifted off with two Verrado electric drift trikes from @localmotors.
http://shop.localmotors.com/products/verrado-electric-drift-trike

Drift VisualizerAn IoT solution to hack drifting. Gameification built around proximity sensors. Leaderboards by location. Drift into the Future!

On top of that - we were able to use Esquilo @esquiloio - easily the most innovative dev board out on the market right now.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/esquiloio/esquilo-simple-iot-developmentThank you to the #hardware community and @hacksterio for making it happen.

https://www.hackster.io

LCD_ADDR <- (0x7c >> 1);

RGB_ADDR <- (0xc4 >> 1);
LCD_2LINE <- 0x08;

REG_RED   <- 0x04;
REG_GREEN <- 0x03;
REG_BLUE  <- 0x02;

i2c <- I2C(0);

function setReg(addr, value)
{
    i2c.address(RGB_ADDR);
    i2c.write8(addr, value);
}

function setRgb(red, green, blue)
{
    setReg(REG_RED, red);
    setReg(REG_GREEN, green);
    setReg(REG_BLUE, blue);
}

setReg(0, 0);
setReg(1, 0);
setReg(0x08, 0xAA);     // all led control by pwm

setRgb(0, 100, 200);

while(true) {
    delay(200);
    setRgb(100, 0, 0);
    local red = (rand().tofloat() / RAND_MAX) * 255.0;
    local green = (rand().tofloat() / RAND_MAX) * 255.0;
    local blue = (rand().tofloat() / RAND_MAX) * 255.0;
    setRgb(red, green, blue);
}