Formula LED

See the project on Hackster.io: https://www.hackster.io/xing-hackweek/formula-led-b4cd78

Team Members

Dev Team

• jesus-lopez
• aaron-ciaghi
• sarah-seitz
• isobel-smith

Special thanks to contributors

• jordi-manuel
• helios-aliaga

Rules

• There are two players: red and blue
• The race begins with a random countdown
• Keep pressing the button on the controller to accelerate
• When a player goes too fast it changes color to green or yellow
• Keep going too fast to be "thrown off the track". When this happens the player's speed is reset to 0 and the player blinks until it accelerates back to speed 1
• There are 5 laps in a race
• The first player to cross the line at the end of the 4th lap wins
• Press the reset button to start again

Build your own

You will need:

• Hardware:
  • 1x Arduino Nano (or any Arduino)
  • 1x LED Strip (WS2813)
  • 2x Buttons
  • 1x 1000 µF capacitor
  • 2x 10kΩ resistors (for the buttons)
  • 1x 470Ω resistor (for the LED strip) but change it according to your power supply
  • Optional: 5V 2A power supply (you may have to change the resistors and the capacitor)
  • All the necessary cables to connect all the stuff above
• Components you can 3d-print:
  • Controllers (Player 1, Player 2)
  • Base
• Software:
  • Arduino IDE
  • Fritzing (http://fritzing.org/download/)

Follow the designs in: Schemas

A real-time race event board

We want to display the race progress in real time on a race board. To do this we are using Flask, (http://flask.pocoo.org/), and mqtt-messages.

Requirements

Python3 and pip are installed.

Create your virtual environment.

<venv> in this case is the path to your virtual environment. (For simplicity, this can just be venv)

python3 -m venv <venv>

Local Development

Local, Local

To activate the virtual environment:

source <venv>/bin/activate

To run the application:

export FLASK_APP=race_events
export FLASK_ENV=development
pip install -e .
flask run