This week, I worked on the color sensor that will be part of my final project for the interactive shoe which will be designed to change LEDs olor when stepping on different surfaces. After some long discussions with the TA’s, Anthony suggested to have a look on Jiri’s color sensor. Eyal helped me to contact him, so it all looked quite promising way to approach this task. When I went out from the Media Lab, I saw Zivi with his mega green hat just under the mega green exit light. I thought that it will be really cool to capture the colors of our surrounding through our outfits and accessories, so I had a lot of motivation to start exploring and fabricate the color sensor for the shoes. Thanks Zivi for inspiring me with your greenish hat!

I worked for some time on the schematics in KiCad with D11C microcontroller, and had to redraw it a few times until it all worked out well.

I fabricated and milled the board and prepared the soldering

preperation of the milling file in mods

soldering & parts organization

After finishing the fabrication part and soldering, Kim helped me to Bootload the system software on the device.

After the Bootload process, I tested the RGB light with Arduino sample code, and all worked out! the RGB light worked with the code, and in the serial mointor I could capture the changes between R, G, and B values!

The next step for next week will be the connection to output LED system :D