LilyPad Safety Scarf
Contributors:
Feldi
Feldi 
Introduction
Design and build time: 1 Day
In this project, we’ll create a wearable safety scarf. The safety scarf is embedded with LilyPad Hardware and a ribbon of LEDs. It is designed for pedestrians to increase visibility when walking the streets at night. The LED ribbon is triggered when light is low, making the wearer more visible to vehicles, bikers, and other pedestrians.
Suggested Reading
Before you get started, take some time to familiarize yourself with the following:
How to Solder: Through-Hole Soldering
This tutorial covers everything you need to know about through-hole soldering.
Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
Learn the basics about LEDs as well as some more advanced topics to help you calculate requirements for projects containing many LEDs.
Polarity
An introduction to polarity in electronic components. Discover what polarity is, which parts have it, and how to identify it.
Insulation Techniques for e-Textiles
Learn a few different ways to protect your conductive thread and LilyPad components in your next wearables project.
Planning a Wearable Electronics Project
Tips and tricks for brainstorming and creating a wearables project.
LilyPad ProtoSnap Plus Hookup Guide
The LilyPad ProtoSnap Plus is a sewable electronics prototyping board that you can use to learn circuits and programming with Arduino, then break apart to make an interactive fabric or wearable project.
Getting Started with LilyPad
An introduction to the LilyPad ecosystem - a set of sewable electronic pieces designed to help you build soft, sewable, interactive e-textile projects.
In this project, we will also be following a free sewing pattern from Purl Soho which can be found here.