longboardLight1

LED longboard light setup, by Thurstan
https://hackaday.io/project/26919-longboardlight1

Repository is an Arduino project

Concept

Lighting system for a longboard. Using sensors to control brake lights, indicator lights and ground tracking effects.

Equipment

Hardware

• Arduino Mini Pro board
  • 5v
  • ATmega328
  • 16 MHz clock speed
  • 1K EEPROM
• D1 Mini board
  • 3.3v
  • ESP8266
• WS2812B addressable LED strips
  • pixel order = GRB
• Movement sensors
  • ADXL335
  • MPU6050 (GY-521 breakout board)
• Wheel tracking sensor
  • probably hall effect sensor and magnets
• 7.4V LiPo Battery

• 6V to 5V Convertor

Software

• Arduino
• FastLED library https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED
• I2CdevLib https://www.i2cdevlib.com https://github.com/jrowberg/i2cdevlib
• VVVV

Licence

• Written by MTS Standish (Thurstan|mattKsp) 2021
• Released under GNU GPLv3 (see LICENCE file)

This software is provided on an "AS-IS-BASIS"

Contains code based on:

• I2CdevLib by Jeff Rowberg, Copyright (c) 2011

• https://github.com/jrowberg/i2cdevlib/blob/master/Arduino/MPU6050/examples/MPU6050_raw/MPU6050_raw.ino

• Arduino MPU6050 auto-calibration script by Luis Ródenas luisrodenaslorda@gmail.com

• http://42bots.com/tutorials/arduino-script-for-mpu-6050-auto-calibration/
• (also) Based on the I2Cdev library and previous work by Jeff Rowberg jeff@rowberg.net

• Fields array selection method and Web interface example from ESP8266 + FastLED webserver by Jason Coon, Copyright (C) 2015-2016, GNU GPL-3.0

• https://github.com/jasoncoon/esp8266-fastled-webserver

Reference

https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/wiki/Pixel-reference
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardProMini
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Troubleshooting#upload
https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/wiki/Pixel-reference
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=140494.0
http://bildr.org/2011/04/sensing-orientation-with-the-adxl335-arduino/
http://42bots.com/tutorials/arduino-script-for-mpu-6050-auto-calibration/
https://www.i2cdevlib.com/devices/mpu6050#source
https://www.i2cdevlib.com/docs/html/class_m_p_u6050.html
http://www.geekmomprojects.com/gyroscopes-and-accelerometers-on-a-chip/
http://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3348/calculating-pitch-yaw-and-roll-from-mag-acc-and-gyro-data
http://www.nxp.com/assets/documents/data/en/application-notes/AN3461.pdf
http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/