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led-matrix-shield
This is a forearm band that has a led matrix on it. It is powered by a esp32c3 Xiao and an 18650.
Approved
HacketWatch
It's an e-ink pocket watch with network connectivity & DOOMSCROLLING!!!!
Approved
HacketWatch copy
It's an e-ink pocket watch with network connectivity & DOOMSCROLLING!!!!
Approved
Leg-arm-Pencil-Dispenser
This project is a simple pencil dispenser that you attach to (most likely) your leg, and wave your hand to get a pencil.
Approved
Plasma-Tube-Necklace
A rectifier tube plasma necklace! It utilizes a dual 18650 setup + boost circuit to power a mosfet-based driver to the flyback transformer. This steps up the voltage into high frequency AC, which is then fed into the vacuum tube. This should create a quiet purple and orange glow. Or, if there happens to be some sort of noble gas inside it could glow a different color.
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flexwatch
FPC eink watch with super long battery life! PCB design is gonna take ages with college essays sobz
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DuckyWatch
A watch with a built in HID device, I plan on programming a custom menu, as well as a few fun side features! I have a bunch of spare parts from hackpad, so I'm gonna use them, specifically the keyswitches and rotary encoder, to build this on a budget! It'll be resin printed in white for that glossy look, and I want to make it feel nice and clean!
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pingpong-ball-led-matrix-backpack
This is a classic 10x10 pingpong ball led matrix, but in backpack form. It uses a xiao esp32c3, so it has WLED software support.
Approved
eink-collar
My project is an e-ink collar. It's a collar with a flexible e-ink display on it. It comes with a leash that has Pi Zero with a e-ink driver HAT mounted on it. You can attach to leash (and have someone hold it!?) if you want to have it live updating (pwnagotchi collar?) or only use it to program a static image.
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labubot
This is the keychain combat robot. A combat robot I will carry with me everyday, mostly for fun. This isnt like a serious bot as NoVA doesnt have a crazy 150g presence but it might be fun throwing this up in 1 pound and seeing it knocked around like crazy. Just an over all fun bot I hope. YES i will be carrying this everyday
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retro-charm
a wearable badge that displays animations on a e paper screen. it cycles through retro clouds, pixel art, and animations. core features: displays pixel art, image, patterns etc which loops through stored images in the card it is designed with a hook which can be worn with a necklace as a pendant, be used as a keychain badge, etc. the slide switch changes display modes. it is rechargeable so its lifetime is much longer.
Approved labubot
This is the keychain combat robot. A combat robot I will carry with me everyday, mostly for fun. This isnt like a serious bot as NoVA doesnt have a crazy 150g presence but it might be fun throwing this up in 1 pound and seeing it knocked around like crazy. Just an over all fun bot I hope.
Approved Leg-arm-Pencil-Dispenser
This project is a pencil dispenser, which you attach to your leg, then wave your hand over when you want a pencil! The basics of electronics are that a PIR motion sensor is hooked up to an Arduino, which, when given input, turns on a servo.
Approved DuckyWatch
I wanted to make a HID compatible watch that I can use to interface with technology at my IT job, as well as a few other fun things. It'll have 3 buttons and a screen, as well as a clicky rotary encoder!, and I'll print the entire thing in SLA resin myself to save money and space. I'll supply the rotary encoder and a few other parts, recycling stuff from my hackpad kit!
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aura-generator
the idea is to have a cool mist smoke effect always, like you see on stages and stuff to get attention; it will use ultrasonic atomizer modules powered by usb c that i can turn on and off. water from a water bottle strapped to my leg will flow through a towel plug to slowly drip into the module, and when its turned on this water will become mist. ill have two modules, so this should be enough to actually be able to see easily. i also wanna try to dye the water purple with food coloring, so halloween-themed mist will generate for bonus effect
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Moving-Wobbly-Eye
This pendant is crated by a mechanism driven using a micro motor and it will be powered through a hidden batter in the clasp, allowing the eyeball to rotate and mirror movement based on in real life.
Approved
running_watch.git
A compact running watch with a 0.96" OLED display that shows heart rate, pace, total distance, stopwatch, and the time. It connects via Bluetooth to an iOS/Android app for Strava logging and lets users track their running data from weekly to yearly summaries.
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LookingGlass
It is basically a see through heads up display mounted on my own glasses. Researching the optics was a nightmare, but this is by first optics project, so hopefully I learn something.
Approved
SwipeBand
Its a SwipeBand! It is a touch screen LCD that is strapped onto your forearm! There will be a bunch of arrows on the screen and you have to swipe in the direction of the arrow! Work your way through the arrow combination - swipe in all the directions of the arrows sequentially - in order to win. This entire time it will be strapped to your forearm while to play. Inspired by HellDivers 2 when you have to call in a strategem.
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WristSnake
It is a arm-band/bracelet that runs snake on it! Another person uses their phone for input and can play snake on your arm band! The arm band is a 8x32 flexible pixil matrix. The idea was to make the player move around and over and under your arm in order to have a more fun experience. It was inspired by Akaza's theif markings from demon slayer!
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LoRa-Box
A hip mounted meshtastic node with a screen and a pair of buttons, designed to act as a midrange node for me to connect to the growing meshtastic population in my area without being tied to my house or car.
waiting for previous project to be done
magnetic-beep
A thing that buzzes once when you face north, twice when east, thrice when south and quadrice when west. It will also connect to a computer so that i can track my angle over time.
waiting for previous project to be done
PixelChest
This is a chest mounted arcade machine! A giant 32cm by 16 cm board is strapped to your chest with all the electronics on the back! You can then use the buttons on the bottom of the board, or pull out the buttons and still play if you feel uncomfortable being that close to the user and now play Pacman! So now you are a walking arcade machine that people can play pacman on! I also plan to add multiple games such as tetris as well. It is powered by a ardunio and multiple batterys.
waiting for previous project to be done
inkbrace
An e-ink wrist gadget using a Pi Zero 2 W for the mcu, showing notifications, time, weather, and more on a tri-color e-ink display. All inside a 3D-printed shell with a strap and powered by a USB power bank.
waiting for previous project to be done
wearable-keyboard
This is my second project. its a 3d printed case so i can wear my piantor keyboard.
Needs update
Turnin
Turnin is a bike turning light indicator which you strap onto your head! There is one ESP-32 connected to your bike with 2 buttons and by pressing the right or left buttons it signals wirelessly via esp-now to another ESP-32 with a built in matrix which is strapped onto your head and displays turn signals.
Approved
vaporveil
Wrist-mounted fog generator, a 3D-printed housing has a water chamber and ultrasonic disc, venting bursts of mist through a top hole. Powered by a power bank with a simple switch.
Approved
GloveMouse
A mouse embedded in the pocket of my winter glove. It has a joystick module for manual control if it's too hard to maneuver, and has 3 buttons mapped to normal mouse buttons.
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wavebrim
Touchless LED hat, a led pixel strip that is under the brim that wakes up when you wave your hand. An ultrasonic sensor spots your gesture and flips through different colors, patterns.
waiting for previous project to be done
GM-Gauntlet
This project is a glove style wearable that acts as a dice roller. Each finger will have a conductive pad that, when touched by the thumb, will trigger a different dice selection. When a die is selected, shaking the hand will trigger the rolling of the dice, generating a random roll result on the LCD screen.
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wearable-mouse
This is my third project and im speedrunning this submission. basically, its airmouse v2. a mouse that you wear on your wrist. this is going to be attatched to the same contraption as wearable keyboard.
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Ivisikeeb
This is basically a glove with flex sensors attatched so that it can see the position of the fingers, and a gyroscope and accelerometer, so that I can implement other stuff in the future. RIght now I am thinking like an invisible keyboard to type on, but I will also probably try to implement other things too.
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WebShooter
Wearable Spiderman Homecoming-style web shooter, features a sleek movie-accurate shell and integrates a hidden electronic motorized retraction system, activated via a button, for quickly pulling back the magnetic “web” after launching.
Approved
2swap
A RPI pico-powered keychain attached to a hand-sewn bandana.
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Blind-Aid-Glasses.git
These are glasses that blind people can use to detect if they're close to something so that they don't get hit, the device beeps when the glasses are near an object.
Needs update
Untitled Project
My first project is a mountable ghost acrylic Badge that utilizes a ESP32 microcontroller and waterproof temperature sensor that allows the badge to glow blue when its cold and red when its hot depending on the surrounding temperature.
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IDWatch
A passive wearable device with 125 kHz RFID and 13.56 MHz NFC capabilities, programmable via any NFC or RFID writer. Made for Hack Club's Alleyway program. In the shape of a standard watch, IDWatch is a device wearable on your wrist that will let you impress the non-techies in your life. Simply tap the face of your watch to their phone, the metro gates, the dining hall meal swipe reader, your building door, etc... and watch them be amazed. No longer will you require an ID card to do things that previously required specialized NFC and RFID readers... because now you have one on your wrist. Functionally, it's very simple -- it's a well-designed small 3D printed labeled chip with two prefabricated integrated circuits, one for each frequency used: 13.56 MHz (NFC) and 125 kHz (RFID). These are programmable with various writers (NFC Tools app on your phone works for NFC, and you'll need a more heavy-duty thing like a Proxmark3 for the RFID one). No batteries are required because both circuits are passive and harness the power of the reader. While it's simple, I feel that this project requires more work in software and programming it to work than it is to assemble, and overall a similar amount of work as a simple electronics project. I think it's a good start as I try to make more complicated wearable devices (such as a location-tracking device and smart glasses) in the coming days and weeks for Alleyway!
Approved
morse-band
This is a pair or multiple pairs of bands, if you press the button all the other bands will vibrate. I will use a esp32c3 xiao, a choc keyboard switch and a lion battery it will use esp-now for communication
Approved
Beanies_Up
A beanie fitted with an OLED module and a microphone so that you can play Heads Up! with it. It uses speech to text to analyze whether the correct answer was spoken and how many questions were asked
Approved
molle-pi
I've done a military themed Halloween costume the last three years, and I've seen some cool plate carrier builds with phone holders, so I thought it would be cool to put an entire computer on one. MY project consists of a mock/airsoft plate carrier that has a small battery powered Raspberry Pi setup (designed after my Hack Pack project from highway) MOLLE'd to it, and a phone holder on the front that you can control the Pi from.
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TopArm
the idea is a simple ish robot arm with servos thats taped onto a tophat that you can wear thats balanced. itll be able to grab tiny things off the top shelf, and wave to friends. its controlled by a joystick module connected to the arduino, which also controls the servo driver that powers the servos. theres also some leds ill add to the arduino for bling.
waiting for previous project to be done
BlinkTag
BlinkTag is a wearable LED name badge powered by an Arduino Nano and a compact 8×32 LED matrix. Designed for events, presentations, or cosplay, it displays scrolling text and animations with customizable speed and brightness.
Needs update
Pulsebar
A wristband that detects heart rate and displays pulsing colors on an LED strip. The wristband uses Arduino Nano and a small heart sensor for the wrist.
Needs update
StockStrap
A wearable Arduino-based stock ticker that straps to your forearm using Velcro. It features a compact OLED display or an all-in-one ESP32 device to show live updates of stock prices and simple graphs, powered by a rechargeable LiPo battery.
Needs update
Spiderman-Mask
Wearable Spiderman mask (made with cardboard, hardened with resin) with LED blue lights on the eyes, mechanical shutter louver system powered by servo motors that move the lenses
Needs update
Alleyway---Dice-Wristband
A motion-activated wristband that “rolls” a virtual die. When you shake your wrist, the device randomly lights up an LED pattern showing a number between 1–6. Additional effects based on what is rolled.
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Alleyway---StarField-Jacket
A lightweight jacket that turns into a glowing night sky! A single WS2812B LED strip is embedded inside the back lining of a windbreaker, powered by a 3.7 V LiPo battery and controlled by an Arduino Nano.
waiting for previous project to be done
Real-Laser-Pointer
A wearable laser pointer with an HC-SR04 module and a 0.91" OLED that displays the distance to whatever you point at. Powered by an Arduino Nano and built for Hack Club's Alleyway program. Simply wear the attachment on your finger, turn it on, and it will periodically send ultrasonic beams from the HC-SR04 sensor attached, calculate the distance from the echo time, and display it on the 0.91" OLED screen mounted on top! And in typical hacker fashion, everything is thrown together with electrical tape! Power is supplied by a power bank in your pocket, supplying the brains: an Arduino Nano, which is also in your pocket. I also have to make this without soldering because it might cause the smoke detector in my dorm to go off :heavysob:
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Kickometer
Kickometer is a way for martial artists to measure their kicking speed with a device attached to their legs. Specifically, this will attach to your sock and with a combination of an ESP-32 and a MPU6500 accelerometer it will calculate the speed of your kick. Then it will also upload the result to a 7 segment display which will display what speed you got. All of this will be powered by a usb battery pack also attached to your sock.
Needs update
project2alleyway.git
This is Pulse Link, an elastic band that depends on a gyroscope sensor controleld via a ESP32 in order to detect sudden ambient movement along with one's pulse. It utilizes an LED strip that is wrapped around the band that flashes and vibrates whenever sudden movement or one's pulse is detected. Additionally, it is powered by a 3.7V Li-on Battery and TP4056 charger.
waiting for previous project to be done project2alleyway.git
This project is an elastic ankle band that reacts based on ambient background movement. It is controlled by an ESP32 microcontroller along with a gyroscope sensor that arepositioned within the band in order to read one's pulse. There is an LED strip that flashes whenever background movement is detected.
waiting for previous project to be done
dumbwatch
A smartwatch, but with all the annoying parts cut out. It’s smart, yet inert, and has a 15 month battery life on one charge.
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Alleyway---Smart-Badge
A minimalist wearable name badge powered by an ESP32 and a mono e-ink display. Shows your name, a small logo/QR, and simple animations (frame-by-frame). E-ink is ultra-readable in sunlight too!E-ink is ultra-readable in sunlight too!
waiting for previous project to be done
alleyway.git
This project is is a glowing "Ghost Acrylic Badge" that is powered by an ESP32 microcontroller. There is an RGD LED at the back of the badge that creates a subtle glowing effect, along with a temperature sensor that reacts depending on the surrounding ambient temperature.
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RayBanneds
cheap knockoff meta ray bands: it uses premium rpicam2 (capable of 4k30, 1080p60), a flipdown oled screen to give information with the esp32. maybe does the harvard face recognition thing(?). uses rpi zero 2w mcu, upload daily videos of life
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SnakeLace
plays snake on a necklace, uses mini led strips and rotary encoder controls. controlled by esp32 mcu, and also have ai play it as a cool accessory. 3d printed chain for necklace (hopefully).
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Dart-Slinger
its a mini dart turret that fits on your arm. esp cam to (hopefully) recognize objects roughly and shoot. inspired by mark rober !! button on wrist to shoot and uses premium(tm) servos for coolness because esp for controls you can remote control w bluetooth. 3d printed body.
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GlowGlove
Basically a glove made out entirely out of LEDs and wires. I should be able to individually address each of them, and use a sound sensor for something in the future.
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