Signal Jacket for Cyclists Gets Instructable: Your Arms Will be Happy

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Back in March we showed Leah Buechley's neat signaling jacket for cyclists, the one that has LED turn-indicators on the back. Not much info was available on it at the time, save for the fact it used an Arduino Lilypad controller. But now Leah's posted a detailed Instructable for the jacket, including handy things like…

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Signal Jacket for Cyclists

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AddyDugdale 3/14/08 12:30pm 3/14/08 12:30pm g 8,240 L 38

Ph.D student Leah Buechley has designed several items of electronic clothing, but her signal jacket for cyclists is, I reckon, something that should be picked up by clothing manufacturers at soon as possible. LEDs embedded in an arrow formation flash to indicate the cyclist is about to turn left or right, warning…

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